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“skill” in Latin
habilitāsability, aptitude, fitnesshabeōto have, hold; to own, have (possessions); to possess, have (qualities)arsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemexercitātiōexercise, training, practice; disciplinefacultāsability to do any thing easily, skill, capacity, power; means, resources; opportunity, chancehabilisable to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient ability or power to do or to conduct; skillful; suitable, apt, fit, prosollersskilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert; ingenious, sagacious, clever, intelligent, inventivedocilitāsdocility; gentlenessērudītiōThat which removes one from ignorance whether instruction, education or erudition, learning, knowledgedoctrīnateaching, instruction; learning, erudition; doctrine, theory
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
skill
habilitas (especially bodily dexterity): habitus (when one is, as it were, at home in an art, etc.; Vid: Cic., Invent., 1, 25, 86): ars (skill in an art): usus alicujus rei (practice and experience): exercitatio (readiness, or knowledge acquired by exercise; Vid: Quint., 10, 5, 19): facultas (ability, power of doing anything): ingenium ad aliquid aptum or habile (natural talent for anything. ☞ Ingenii dexteritas, or simply dexteritas, ad aliquid = dexterity, address, worldly wisdom; Vid: Liv., 28, 18; 37, 7, extr. Gell., 13, 16; in the sense of “skill,” general term, it is not Latin): sollertia (cleverness, talent): docilitas, ingenium docile (aptness to learn, docility): peritia alicujus rei (insight into a thing): scientia alicujus rei (acquaintance with a thing): eruditio: doctrina (scientific education and knowledge). To have or possess skill in anything, habilem or aptum esse ad aliquid; natum esse ad aliquid: with skill, scite; scienter.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for skill?
- The usual Latin words for “skill” are habilitās, habeō, ars; also exercitātiō, facultās, habilis. 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.