English → Latin
“slur” in Latin
maculaa spot, speck, small mark or stain; a blemish, temporary or permanent (for example, a bruise, freckle, mole, birthmark, lābēsfall, collapse; subsidence; fault, defectīnfuscōto darken or obscure; to sully, stain or tarnishdēfōrmōto form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe; to deform, disfigure; to spoil, marfoedōto make foul or filthy, soil, dirty; defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform; to dishonor, disgraceoblinōto daub over, besmear
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
slur
macula: labes: nota turpitudinis. To cast a slur on anybody, labem or labeculam aspergere alicui or alicui rei; alicui ignominiam inurere; infuscare, deformare, infamem facere, foedare, oblinere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for slur?
- The usual Latin words for “slur” are macula, lābēs, īnfuscō; also dēfōrmō, foedō, oblinō. 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.