English → Latin
“purity” in Latin
munditiacleanness, cleanliness; neatness, tidiness, elegance, finenessmunditiēscleanness, eleganceintegritāssoundness; integrity, blamelessness; chastitycastitāspurity; morality; chastitycastīmōniamorality; purity, chastity, abstinencesānctitāsinviolability, sacredness, sanctity; holiness, virtue, piety, integrity, honour, chastityōrātiōspeech, discourse, language; the power of speech; manner or style of speakingsincēritāsintegrity, honesty; soundness, wholeness; moral puritypūritāsfreedom from pollution, purity; moral purity (freedom from mental or spiritual corruption, from sin); correctness and el
The English word purity itself goes back to Latin pūrus, through puritas.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
purity
Cleanness, munditia: mundities (☞ puritas does not occur in the best prose).
In a moral sense, integritas (unspotted character): castitas, castimonia (chastity): sanctitas (holiness).
(Of language)(Of language), integritas (incorrupti sermonis integritas; Cic.): munditia or mundities verborum, or orationis; castitas; sinceritas. Cf.., Not puritas; but the adjective, purus is used, pura oratio, etc. Vid: PURE (of language).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for purity?
- The usual Latin words for “purity” are munditia, munditiēs, integritās; also castitās, castīmōnia, sānctitās. 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.