English → Latin
“miscellaneous” in Latin
magnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, lovehemēnsvery eager; impetuous, ardent, furious; vehement; emphaticmisceōto mix; to mingle; to intermingle; to unite; to combine; to share; to associate; of a disturbance of the natural order, commisceōto mix or mingle together, intermingle, combine; to unite, bring together, join, mingle; to produce by minglingpermisceōto mix or mingle together thoroughly, commingle, intermingle, combine; to mix together, unite, join, combine; to throw iprōmiscuusnot separate or distinct, mixed; mutual, shared; indiscriminate, promiscuous; epicenemiscellāneusmixed; assorted; miscellaneous (combining various elements)miscellusan inferior type of grape and the vine producing it; an inferior type of grape and the vine producing it; mixed; hybrid
The English word miscellaneous itself goes back to Latin misceō, through miscellāneus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
miscellaneous
Heavy rain, imber magnus or maximus; imber crassae aquae († Martisalis, 12, 26): a heavy cloud, crassa nebula: heavy sleep, vehemens or artus somnus: heavy debts, magnum aes alienum: heavy bread, panis durus (hard); *panis male coctus (ill-baked); panis sine fermento (without leaven); *panis male fermentatus (not leavened PROP.): the market is heavy, pretia rerum jacent.
miscellaneous
mixtus; commixtus; permixtus; promiscuus; miscellaneus (Apul.); miscellus (Suet.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for miscellaneous?
- The usual Latin words for “miscellaneous” are magnus, vehemēns, misceō; also commisceō, permisceō, prōmiscuus. 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.