English → Latin
“scarcely” in Latin
vixwith difficulty, with effort; scarcely, hardly, barely; hardly, merely, just, scarcelyaegersick, ill; weak, feeble; difficult, reluctant, troublesomecommoduscomfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming; opportune, timely, tidy; pleasant, friendlythūsincense; frankincensevixdumonly or but just; hardly, scarcely, or barely yet; almostmodō̆just, only, merely, simply; recently, just now; presently
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
scarcely
vix: aegre [SYN. in HARDLY]. (The words are found in this connection and order.) vix aegreque: scarcely, if at all, vix aut ne vix quidem; vix aut omnino non; vix vixque: to be scarcely able to restrain one’s self, vix se continere posse; aegre se tenere: scarcely thirty, vix triginta: scarcely anybody, vix quisquam; nemo fere (so nullus fere; nihil fere; numquam fere). It can scarcely be told, dici vix potest, or vix potest dici (☞ not vix dici potest).
(With pluperfect) (With pluperfect) = when: vix or vixdum - cum: commodum or commode - cum: tantum quod - cum [Vid: examples under HARDLY]. ☞ The cum is sometimes, but rarely, omitted; thus, qui tantum quod ad hostes pervenerat. Datames signa inferri jubet (Nep.).
Only just now, vixdum; vix tandem; tantum quod; modo. Marcellus, who had scarcely ceased to be a boy, Marcellus tantum quod pueritiam egressus (Suet.).
Scarcely... much less, vixdum - nedum (e.g., vixdum libertatem, nedum dominationem modice ferre).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for scarcely?
- The usual Latin words for “scarcely” are vix, aeger, commodus; also thūs, vixdum, modō̆. 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.