English → Latin
“sweet” in Latin
dulcissweet; sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, fragrant; sweet-sounding, melodic, melodious, tunefulsuāvissweet, pleasant, deliciousmollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tenderblanduspleasant, agreeable; enticing, seductive, alluring; persuasiveiūcunduspleasant, agreeable, delightful, pleasing, deliciousaustērusaustere, plain; harsh, bitter, sour; sharp, pungent, tartmelleusOf, pertaining to or resembling honey.; As sweet as honey; honey-sweet, delightful, charming.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sweet
PROP., dulcis (the proper word; opposed to amarus, austerus, asper). Sweet as honey, melleus: cloyingly sweet, languide dulcis (Plin.).
Figuratively. Of sounds, dulcis: suavis: mollis: blandus: a sweet voice, vox dulcis, suavis, mollis.
Of smell, suavis: jucundus (Cic.); mollis (Plin.).
Agreeable, pleasant, suavis: jucundus: dulcis: sweet sleep, somnus dulcis or jucundus (Cic.), mollis (Verg.), levis (Hor.): the sweet name of liberty, dulce nomen libertatis (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sweet?
- The usual Latin words for “sweet” are dulcis, suāvis, mollis; also blandus, iūcundus, austērus. 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.