English → Latin
“peasant” in Latin
agricolafarmerrūsticusof the country, rural, rustic; unrefined, boorish, coarseagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;rūsticānusrusticpāgānusof or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic; rustic, unlearned; pagan, heathenvīcānusvillage
The English word peasant itself goes back to Latin pāgus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
peasant
agricola, agri cultor (in respect of occupation; ☞ ruricola is poetical): rusticus (in respect of occupation or of manners; a boor): agrestis (one who lives in the country; also, in respect of manners, a rough unmannerly boor. ☞ The rusticus violates the conventional laws of behavior; the agrestis also offends against natural propriety; opposed to urbanus): rusticanus (grown up or educated in the country): paganus, vicanus (a villager; opposed to oppidanus).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for peasant?
- The usual Latin words for “peasant” are agricola, rūsticus, agrestis; also rūsticānus, pāgānus, vīcānus. 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.