English → Latin
“taunting” in Latin
contumēliōsusabusive, insolentamārusbitter (taste); harsh, shrill (sound); sarcastic (speech)acerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, viasperrough, uneven, coarse; unrefined, rude; sharp, newly mintedmordāxbiting; snappish; tart; cutting; causticinvidiōsusenvious, invidious, hostile; enviableaculeātusprickly; barbed; stinging, barbed (metaphorical)probrōsusshameful, ignominious
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
taunting
contumeliosus (insulting): amarus (bitter): acerbus (sour): asper (rough): mordax (biting): invidiosus (calculated to raise a prejudice against the person attacked): aculeatus (stinging): probrosus. [SYN. in CONTUMELIOUS, CHIDE.] Taunting words, verborum aculei.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for taunting?
- The usual Latin words for “taunting” are contumēliōsus, amārus, acerbus; also asper, mordāx, invidiōsus. 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.