English → Latin
“sensitive” in Latin
mollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tenderirrītābilisirritable, irascible, short-tempered; excitable, susceptibleīrācundushasty of temper, hot-tempered, irritable, irascible, predisposed to anger, prone to anger, quick to anger; passionate, wanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason,
The English word sensitive itself goes back to Latin sēnsitīvus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sensitive
Quick of sensation, *facile sentiens (☞ not sensibilis in this sense). The eye is a very sensitive organ, oculi facile laeduntur.
Alive to emotion, mollis; qui or cujus animus facile movetur. The sensitive plant, *mimosa sensitiva (Linn.).
Irritable, mollis ad accipiendam otfensionem (e.g., animus, Cic. Att., 1, 17, 2): irritabilis (excitable): iracundus: facile excandescens: iram in promtu gerens (irritable; the latter, Plaut., Pseud., 1, 5, 33). To be (over) sensitive, animo esse molliore; in aliquo est animus mollis
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sensitive?
- The usual Latin words for “sensitive” are mollis, irrītābilis, īrācundus; also animus. 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.