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“rich” in Latin
dīvesrich, wealthy; productive, fertile, abundant with riches; sumptuous, costly, splendid, preciouslocuplēspossessing large, landed property; rich, wealthyfortūnōto make happy, prosper; to blessopulentuswealthy; rich; opulentcōpiōsuscopious, plentiful, abundant; prolific; eloquentbeātushappy, (truly) happy, blessed, fortunate; prosperous, wealthy, rich; copious, sumptuouslargusabundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something; bountiful, liberal, munificent; generous with, lavish ofūbera teat, pap, dug, udder, a lactating breast; richness, fruitfulnessplēnusfull; filled; complete; full of; plump; bulkyopīmusfat, rich, plump, corpulent; fertile, fruitful (land)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rich
PROP., dives (possessing much money, = pecuniosus; opposed to pauper): locuples (far above want; opposed to egens, egenus): fortunatus (in good circumstances; less than dives): opulentus (wealthy, and thence possessing influence): copiosus (possessing the necessaries of life in abundance; opposed to tenuis, exllis): beatus (possessing abundance of earthly goods; opposed to mendicus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) locuples et copiosus: opulentus et copiosus; locuples et refertus. When there is an especial reference to money, pecuniosus: bene nummatus: argento copiosus (Cic.): nummis dives (Hor.): pecuniae opulentus (Tac.). Very rich, praedives (Liv.); perdives, magnis opibus praeditus (Cic.): to be very rich, divitiis diffluere, affluere, abundare; omnibus rebus ornatum et copiosum esse; amplissimam possidere pecuniam; opibus maxime florere; magnas opes habere; maximis esse fortunis; omni rerum abundantia circumfluere: to make rich, locupletare (Cic.); ditare (Liv.; but chiefly in the poets); opibus, divitiis augere, ornare aliquem; divitem, opulentum facere aliquem (Cic.); pecunia augere aliquem (Tac.): to become rich, divitem fieri (Cic.): ditescere (Hor., Sat.); ditari, locupletari (Cic.); ad divitias pervenire; opes nancisci (Liv.); augeri, crescere opibus, divitiis, pecuniis, fortunis (after Cic.).
Figuratively, (1) Having abundance of anything, copiosus: largus: uber: locuples. (2) Abundant, copiosus: largus: plenus: opimus. Rich presents, munera locupletia, magna (Nep.); ampla (Caes.).
Costly, dives: pretiosus: A rich cloth, pannus auro, argento dives, pretiosus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rich?
- The usual Latin words for “rich” are dīves, locuplēs, fortūnō; also opulentus, cōpiōsus, beātus. 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.