English → Latin
“mourning” in Latin
lūctusa mourning, grieving; grief, sorrow; lamentationvestisgarment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesturesquālorstiffness, roughness; dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, squalorsordēsdirt, filth, squalor; meanness, stinginess, niggardliness; humiliationpullātusclothed in dirty or black clothes; of the common people; dressed in mourning clothes, mourningsordidātusshabby (shabbily dressed)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mourning
Sorrow, grief, luctus; maestitia maeror. A house of mourning, domus lugubris (general term); domus funesta (in which a corpse lies).
The outward signs, garb, etc., of sorrow, vestis or cultus lugubris; squalor; sordes. To be in mourning, pullatum or sotdidatum esse squalere: many noble families were in mourning, multae et clarae lugubres erant domus: in mourning, sordidatus; pullatus; atratus; veste lugubri vestitus: to put on mourning, vestem mutare; vestem lugubrem sumere or induere: to leave off mourning, ad vestitum (suum) redire (opposed to vestem mutare); luctum deponere or finire; vestem lugubrem deponere or exuere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mourning?
- The usual Latin words for “mourning” are lūctus, vestis, squālor; also sordēs, pullātus, sordidātus. 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.