English → Latin
“soft” in Latin
mollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tendertenersoft, delicate, tender; young, youthful; effeminate, sensitivemītismild, mellow, mature, ripe; sweet, juicy, succulent; light, fruitful, mellow.; calm, gentle, placidsorbilisable to be sucked up, drinkable
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
soft
PROP., mollis (not hard; opposed to durus): tener (tender; opposed to asper): mitis (gentle, mild). Very soft, praemollis: soft-boiled eggs, ova mollia or sorbilia. A soft hand, manus mollis (Ov.). A soft voice, vox lenis: a soft air, aër tepidus. [Vid :, also, GENTLE, MILD.] to grow soft [Vid: SOFTEN].
Figuratively, mollis: tener.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for soft?
- The usual Latin words for “soft” are mollis, tener, mītis; also sorbilis. 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.