What is the Latin word for quite?

The usual Latin words for “quite” are longus, multus, prōrsus; also plānus, penitus, funditus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“quite” in Latin

longusfar, long; extended, prolonged (of space, in general); remote, distant, far off; great, vast, spacious multusmuch; many prōrsusforwards; straight forward; directly; certainly, truly, precisely, utterly, absolutely plānuslevel, flat, even; intelligible, clear penitusinner, inward funditusfrom the very bottom; utterly, entirely, totally, completely tōtuswhole, all, entire, total, complete, every part; all together, all at once

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

quite

ex toto (entirely; e.g., tutum esse, to be quite safe): ex integro (afresh; e.g., aliquid efficere novum): ex omni parte (in every respect; e.g., to be happy, beatum esse): omni numero: omnibus numeris: omnibus numeris et partibus (in all its parts and details; e.g., quite complete or perfect, omnibus numeris absolutus; perfectus expletusque omnibus numeris et partibus: to be quite perfect or complete, omnes numeros habere or continere): omni ratione (in every kind of way; e.g., aliquem exinanire): longe: multo (by a great deal, with alius or diversus, different): prorsus, plane, penitus [SYN., in ALTOGETHER]: funditus (from the foundation): in or per omnes partes; per omnia (in every respect): totus (e.g., he is quite altered, totus commutatus est): Numantia was quite destroyed, Numantia funditus deleta est. Sometimes expressed by a compound word, or by some other turn of expression; e.g., to empty the bottle quite, lagenam exsiccare; a jug, potare faece tenus cadum. To leap quite over anything, transilire aliquid or trans aliquid. I am quite miserable, prorsus nihil abest, quin sim miserrimus: he is quite unlearned, omnino omnis eruditionis expers est: he is not quite unlearned, nec tamen scit nihil: to be of quite a different opinion, longe aliter sentire; tota sententia dissidere: to be quite otherwise, longe secus esse; longe aliter se habere. Quite right (in answers), ita est.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for quite?: The usual Latin words for “quite” are longus, multus, prōrsus; also plānus, penitus, funditus. 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.