English → Latin
“moist” in Latin
ūmidusmoist, humid, damp, dank, wet; formerly liquid, frozen; watery, weakūduswetūvidusmoist, wet, damp, humid, dank; drunken; vapidmadeōto be wet or moist; to drip; to flow; to be drunk or intoxicatedmadidusmoist, wet, soaked, drenched; drunk, tipsypluviusrainy, bringing rainpluviōsusFull of rain, rainy.lacrimōto weep
The English word moist itself goes back to Latin mūceō, through mūcidus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
moist
humidus (of that which is soaked or penetrated by moisture, and also of that which brings or occasions moisture; e.g., wind; opposed to aridus): udus, uvidus (of that which consists of water, etc.; opposed to terrenus or solidus. ☞ Although udus and uvidus are almost foreign to the prose of the golden period, which contented itself with humidus, as Cic., Tusc., 1, 17, 40, terrena et humida for terrena et uvida; get bath are frequent in post Augustanprose, and for the sake of distinction, may sometimes be employed): madens, madidus (dripping, opposed to siccus): pluvius (inclined to rain, of the seasons and the weather; opposed to serenus. ☞ Only Plin., 18, 25, 60, pluviosus): moist weather, humidus, or uvidus, or pluvius caeli status; caelum pluvium: with moist eyes, = weeping, lacrimans; cum lacrimis: to be moist, humidum etc., esse; madere: to become moist, humidum, etc., fieri; madefieri; madescere: to make or render moist, humidum, etc., facere or reddere; madefacere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for moist?
- The usual Latin words for “moist” are ūmidus, ūdus, ūvidus; also madeō, madidus, pluvius. 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.