English → Latin
“taint” in Latin
vitiōto vitiate, make faulty, spoil, taint, corrupt, damage; to violate sexually; to falsify, corrupt (tamper with)corrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotīnficiōto dip, to dunk, to submerge; to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge; to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint,vitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, faultcontāgiōcontact, touch; intercourse (social); influence
The English word taint itself goes back to Latin tingō, through tinctum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
taint v.
PROP., vitiare: corrumpere: inficere: contagione aliquem labefactare.
Figuratively, inficere vitiis: imbuere erroribus, vitiis.
taint s.
By the verbs; or vitium, contagio (PROP. and figuratively).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for taint?
- The usual Latin words for “taint” are vitiō, corrumpō, īnficiō; also vitium, contāgiō. 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.