English → Latin
“lifeless” in Latin
inanimuslifeless, inanimateinanimātusinanimatevītalife; living, support, subsistence; a way of lifeexanimisdead, lifeless; breathless, as if near death, resulting from fear or terror; fainting; terrified, dismayedexanimōto deprive of air or wind; deflate; weaken, exhaust; to deprive of life, kill, wear out; to be out of breath, be weakeneexsanguisDeprived of blood, without or lacking in blood; bloodless.; Pale, wan.; Powerless, feeble, weak, exhausted.moriorto die, be slain, fall (in battle), perish; to decay, witherexstinguōto quench, extinguish, put out; to destroy, kill, slay, abolishinanimāliswithout life, inanimate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
lifeless
Naturally without life, inanimus, inanimatus (opposed to animal: ☞ later forms are inanimis, inanimans, inanimalis); vita, or vita et sensu carens (without life and feeling): to be lifeless, inanimum esse; vita carere.
That has lost life, exanimus; exanimis; exanimatus; exsanguis (without blood, dead); mortuus, exstinctus (dead): almost lifeless, exstincto or mortuo similis (like a dead person, PROP.) exanimatus, exsanguis (rather figuratively).
FIG., Without power or vigor, exsanguis (e.g., of a speech).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for lifeless?
- The usual Latin words for “lifeless” are inanimus, inanimātus, vīta; also exanimis, exanimō, exsanguis. 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.