English → Latin
“morally” in Latin
honestusfull of or regarded with honor; honorable; of high birth; noble; distinguished; respectable; eminent; bring or deservingprobābilislikely, credible, probable, plausible; commendable, admirable; justifiableēmendōto free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure; to correct by punishment, chastise, atone or compensbonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; usefulrēctusled straight along, drawn in a straight line, straight, upright.; right, correct, proper, appropriate, befitting.; moralcorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rot
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
morally
Virtuously, honeste.
With reference to morals; by the substantive, e.g., to be morally good, emendatis, bonis, rectis, esse moribus: to be morally bad, piavis, corruptis, esse moribus.
According to probability, probabiliter (Cic.); ut videtur; ☞ not verisimiliter, late. Morally certain, perhaps *probabilis et paene necessario conclusus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for morally?
- The usual Latin words for “morally” are honestus, probābilis, ēmendō; also bonus, rēctus, corrumpō. 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.