English → Latin
“no” in Latin
parvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantquidemindeed; in fact; at leastimmōon the contrary, nay (rather), no indeed; actually, what is more, even (often intensified with edepol, hercle, ecastor, nōto swim; to float; to sail, flow, fly, etc.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
no adv.
non; minime vero, minime... quidem (no, not at all): immo, immo vero, immo enim vero, immo potius (when one answers by the contrary; no! on the contrary). ☞ The verb from the preceding question is usually repeated with non; as, is your brother within? estne frater intus? no! non! or better, non est: are you not angry? non irata es? no! non sum irata: do you not believe these things? an tu haec non credis? no, no! not at all, minime vero! or, are you of opinion that it is not necessary for a good state to give suitable laws? an censes non necesse esse optimae reipublicae leges dare consentaneas? no! I am quite of that opinion, immo prorsus ita censeo: are you then deceiving him? siccine hunc decipis? no! on the contrary, he is cheating me, immo enim vero hic me decipit. ☞ For the English “no, it is not so,” we must not repeat non, and say non, non ita est, we must say only non ita est). To answer yes or no, aut etiam aut non respondere: the one says yes, the other no, hic ait, ille negat: to say no to anything, negare aliquid (to deny or negative); abnuere; denegare; negare se aliquid facturum esse (to refuse).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for no?
- The usual Latin words for “no” are parvus, quidem, immō; also nō. 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.