English → Latin
“specious” in Latin
speciōsusgood-looking, handsome, beautiful; splendid, brilliant; showy, specioussimulōto make like, simulate, imitate, copy, represent; to feign, pretend; to behave or act (as if, as though)fingōto shape, fashion, form, knead (dough); to touch, touch gently, stroke, stroke gently, handle; to adorn, dress, arrangefūcōto colour, paint, dye; to embellish, dissemble, falsifyfūcōsuspainted, coloured, beautified; fake, counterfeit, spuriouscolōrōto color, tinge, imbue; to paint, dye
The English word specious itself goes back to Latin speciēs, through speciōsus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
specious
speciosus (having a fair appearance): simulatus: fictus: fucatus: fucosus (Cic.): coloratus (Sen., showy, but false). Specious virtue, virtutis species (Cic.); virtus simulata, non vera (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for specious?
- The usual Latin words for “specious” are speciōsus, simulō, fingō; also fūcō, fūcōsus, colōrō. 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.