English → Latin
“stain” 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, defectnōtusfamiliar, customary, in common use; widely known, famous, well-known; of great renown, illustrious, celebrated, notoriouignōminiadishonour, disgrace, degradation, ignominy, shamelābēculastain, blemish; minor disgracemaculōto stain, make spotted; to defile, pollute; to dishonor
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
stain s.
macula (a mark which variegates): labes (a mark which disfigures): nota (a mark which distinguishes). All these words PROP. or figuratively: to denote a stain on the character more distinctly, we may say, macula sceleris; labes turpitudinis or ignominiae; nota turpitudinis. A slight stain, labecula: parva macula. To get a stain, maculam trahere. To take out a stain (PROP.), maculam, labem eluere: maculam delere: maculam (e veste) abluere (Plin.), (de veste) auferre (Ov.). To wipe out a stain (figuratively), labem abolere, maculam delere (Cic.).
stain v.
To mark or disfigure with a stain, maculare (☞ maculis variare, to spot, sprinkle): maculis aspergere: rei labem imponere.
To color, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for stain?
- The usual Latin words for “stain” are macula, lābēs, nōtus; also ignōminia, lābēcula, maculō. 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.