English → Latin
“strange” in Latin
īnsolitusunaccustomed; unusualīnsolēnsunusual; contrary to custom or one’s own custom; arrogant, haughty, insolentnovusnew, novel; fresh, young; recentmīruswonderful, marvelous, amazing, surprising, miraculousextrāriusoutward, external, extrinsic; unrelated (person); stray (canis extrarius)extrāneusforeign; strangealiēnusOf that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign; unfriendly, inimical, hostile, sushospeshost; guest, visitor; stranger, foreignervideōto see, perceive; look (at); to observe, note; to understand, perceive, comprehendpāpaa dad, daddy, father; a bishop; a pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)
The English word strange itself goes back to Latin exter, through extrāneus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
strange
Foreign, Vid:
Figuratively, (a) Unacquainted with anything. To be strange (stranger) in a thing, in aliqua re peregrinum, hospitem, non versatum esse; in aliqua re peregrinum atque hospitem esse; alienum esse in re (not to be trusted with anything): rudem esse in re (to have no knowledge of anything). (b)
Unusual, insolitus, insolens; novus (new): mirus (wonderful, striking). To be strange, mirum esse or videri. A thing seems strange to us, mirum aliquid mihi videtur; miror, demiror, admiror aliquid; admiror de re (it excites my astonishment): offendit me aliquid; aegre or moleste fero aliquid (it is very offensive to me); very strange, permirum aliquid mihi accidit. This ought not to appear strange to anybody, mirabile nihil habet ea res.
Not belonging to one’s self or one’s family, extrarius, extraneus (the former, that does not belong to one’s person; e.g., extrarius canis, a strange dog; Suet., Vit., 4; the latter, that does not belong to the family; opposed to domesticus; Vid: Col., 12, praef., § 4; Suet., Claud., 4): alienus (general term, that does not concern or relate to one; especially in respect of possession; opposed to meus or noster, amicus, etc.). Strange persons, extranei (opposed to familiares, etc.): alienissimi (Caes., B.G., 6, 31). To pass into strange hands, in alienas manus incidere.
Figuratively, (a) To be strange to a person or thing; i. e., not suited, alienum esse; abhorrere a, etc.: (b) to be strange (i. e., averse, disinclined), averso or alieno esse in aliquem animo.
strange interj.
papae! (Terentianus): nonne hoc mirum est? nonne hoc monstri simile est?
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for strange?
- The usual Latin words for “strange” are īnsolitus, īnsolēns, novus; also mīrus, extrārius, extrāneus. 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.