English → Latin
“leisure” in Latin
ōtiumtime free from activity: leisure, free time; time avoiding activity: idleness, inactivity; peace, repose, quiet, quietneōtiōsusidle; unemployed; disengagedvacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of; without; free; unoccupied
The English word leisure itself goes back to Latin licēre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
leisure
otium: tempus otii: tempus labore (poetical laboris) or negotiis vacuum: tempus vacuum: *facultas vacui ac liberi temporis (the power of employing one’s time as one likes). Perfect leisure from all public duties, omnium munerum vacatio: litterary leisure, otium litteratum: having or being at leisure, otiosus: vacuus negotiis: vacuus: to have plenty of leisure, multum otii habere: otio abundare or diffluere: to have no leisure time, temporis vacui nihil habere: to have leisure for anything, otium habere ad aliquid: I have no leisure for a thing, aliquid faciendi otium non est: to be at leisure, vacare: vacuum esse (to have one’s time free, opposed to occupatio, which compels one to work); otiari: otiosum esse: otium habere, otium est alicui (to be at leisure; opposed to negotia, which oblige one to work); feriari: ferias agere (to enjoy a holiday; opposed to working all day); cessare (to make a half-holiday, and enjoy a short cessation; opposed to previous activity); nihil agere (to be doing nothing; opposed to activity in general): when I am more at leisure, cum plus otii nactus ero; si plus otii habuero: I have not leisure enough to undertake such a task, occupata opera tanta res suscipi a me non potest: to get leisure, otium nancisci: in otium venire: otium alicui contingit: when I get any leisure, ubi quid otii datur: all the leisure time that is left from my public duties, quantum mihi otii respublica tribuet: to spend one’s leisure time in anything, otium conferre ad aliquid; otium consumere, collocare, or conterere in aliqua re: how could I employ my present leisure better? ubi enim melius uti possumus hoc otio? leisure hours, tempus ab opere or negotiis vacuum: otium: tempora subsiciva (when one is occupied with what is not his chief business: labor in such hours, operae subsicivae).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for leisure?
- The usual Latin words for “leisure” are ōtium, ōtiōsus, vacuus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.