English → Latin
“transitory, transient” in Latin
cadūcusThat falls or has fallen, falling, collapsing, tottering, drooping.; That easily falls, inclined to fall; Devoted to deaīnfirmusweak, feeble; unhealthy, infirm, indisposed, sick; inconclusivefragilisfragile, brittle, easily broken, breakable; weak, frail, flimsy, perishableflū̆xusa flowing, flow, flux; emission (of semen)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
transitory, transient
caducus (the proper word): infirmus (weak): fragilis (frail): fluxus (that soon passes away). (The words are found in this connection and order.) caducus et infirmus: fragilis et caducus: fluxus atque fragilis. All sublunary things are transitory, infra lunam nihil nisi caducum et mortale.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for transitory, transient?
- The usual Latin words for “transitory, transient” are cadūcus, īnfirmus, fragilis; also flū̆xus. 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.