English → Latin
“rustic” in Latin
rūsticusof the country, rural, rustic; unrefined, boorish, coarseagrestisrural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside); clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage;rūsticānusrusticinurbānusrustic, ungraceful, unmannerlyincultusuntilled, uncultivated; neglected; unadorned, unpolishedsubrūsticussomewhat clownish, somewhat unrefinedsubagrestissomewhat rustic; rather boorishstīpōto crowd or press together, compress; to cram, stuff, fill; to surround, encompasscaudextree trunk, stump; bollard; post; book, writing; notebook, account book
The English word rustic itself goes back to Latin rūsticus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rustic adj.
rusticus (residing in the country, like “countrified;” hence intellectually rough, bashful, ignorant of the conventional laws of decorum. Rusticitas is, in its best sense, allied to innocence; in its worst, to awkwardness): agrestis (residing or growing wild in the fields; hence morally rough, shameless, vulgar; always in a bad sense, like “churlish.” The rusticus violates only the conventional, the agrestis even the natural laws of good behavior): rusticanus (still milder, in its censure, than rusticus: rusticus is one who actually lives in a country village; rusticanus, one who resembles those who live in country villages = rusticorum similis): inurbanus (unmannerly): incultus (without cultivation; ill-bred). (The words are found in this connection and order.) agrestis et inhumanus. Sontewhat rustic, subrusticus, subagrestis. Rustic manners, mores rustici. A rustic pronunciation, vox rustica (broad) et agrestis (coarse). In a rustic manner, rustice. To speak with a rustic pronunciation, rustice loqui. To behave like a rustic, rustice facere. A rustic dress, cultus agrestis: vestitus agrestis.
rustic s.
rusticus (the peasant, as well with reference to his occupation as to his manners; opposed to urbanus): agrestis (the peasant with regard to his dwelling and manners: ☞ the rusticus violates merely the conventional, but the agrestis also the common laws of civility). He is a mere rustic, merum rus est (comedy): homo agrestis, stipes, caudex (as abusive epithets). Vid. SUSTIC, adjective.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rustic?
- The usual Latin words for “rustic” are rūsticus, agrestis, rūsticānus; also inurbānus, incultus, subrūsticus. 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.