English → Latin
“shallow” in Latin
vadumA shallow, ford, shoal; A body of water; sea, stream; The bottom of a body of watertenuisthin, slender, slim, lank; especially; fine, rare, thin; pure, clear, not coarse; weak, feeble, tenuousvadōsusfull of shallowsāridusdry, parched, withered, arid; dry, lean, meagre, shrivelled; withered (e.g. from disease); uninspired, jejune, spiritlesieiūnusfasting, abstinent, hungry; dry, barren, unproductive; scanty, meagerlevislight, not heavy; easy to digest; quick, swift, fleet, nimble, rapid
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shallow s.
vadum; locus vadosus (Caes.). ☞ Brevia vada, or simply brevia, are poetical.
shallow adj.
PROP., tenuis: vadosus (full of shallows, Caes.): Shallow water, aqua languida, tenuis. Figuratively, tenuis: aridus: jejunus: levis. Shallow knowledge or learning, levis rerum cognitio; parum subtilis doctrina: wit, ingenium jejunum, aridum, tenue.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shallow?
- The usual Latin words for “shallow” are vadum, tenuis, vadōsus; also āridus, ieiūnus, levis. 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.