English → Latin
“rambler, rambling” in Latin
vaguswandering, rambling, strolling, roving, roaming, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant; wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant,vagorto ramble, wander, stroll about, roam, rove; to waver, be unsettlederrōto wander, rove, stray, roam; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth, to mistakedissipōto scatter, disperse, spread abroad; to dissipate or squander; to demolish, overthrow, destroy, ruin
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rambler, rambling
vagus; vagans; errans.
Rambling (of style), vagus (Cic., with blame: opposed to solutus, of an easy step): dissipatus: fluctuans et dissolutus (unconnected, loosely put together).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rambler, rambling?
- The usual Latin words for “rambler, rambling” are vagus, vagor, errō; also dissipō. 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.