English → Latin
“mischief” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, madvertōto turn to or towards; to steer or pilot (a ship); to turn the mind to, give attention or draw attention to, attendcalamitāsloss, damage, harm; misfortune, calamity, disaster; military defeatpestisdisease, plague, pestilence, infection; a pest; destruction, ruin, deathcausacause, reason; case, claim, contention; cause, judicial process, lawsuit
The English word mischief itself goes back to Latin caput, through *capare.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mischief
malum; res mala or adversa; calamitas (evil, misfortune): pestis, pemicies (ruin). To do mischief to, calamitatem alicui struere (Cic.); inferre alicui calamitatem: mischief-muker, auctor mali (malorum); calamitatis (-um) causa, parens (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mischief?
- The usual Latin words for “mischief” are malus, advertō, calamitās; also pestis, causa. 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.