English → Latin
“pestilence” in Latin
pestilentiainfectious or contagious disease; plague, pestilenceluōto let go, set free; to atone for; to pay (a debt)
The English word pestilence itself goes back to Latin pestis, through pestilentia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pestilence
pestilentia (an epidemic sickness): lues (as the impure material, or cause of disease): morbus pernicialis (a mortal disease; ☞ pestis is not used in this sense by the best prose writers; with them it has only the sense of “a pest”): a pestilence breaks out in a city, pestilentia incidit in urbem: a city suffers from pestilence, pestilentia urit urbem: to die of pestilence, pestilentia absumi: to be a remedy against a pestilence, pestilentiae contagia prohibere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pestilence?
- The usual Latin words for “pestilence” are pestilentia, luō. 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.