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“tremendous” in Latin
terribilisfrightful, dreadful, terrible, horribleformīdulōsusfrightened, fearful, timid; frightening, fearsome, dreadfulreformīdōto dreadmetuōto fear, be afraid; to be anxious or afraid about or for a specific person or thing; to revere, dreadtimeōto fear, be afraid of, apprehend, be apprehensive of; to be afraid, to fear, to be apprehensiveingēnshuge, vast, enormous; immoderate, exorbitant; extraordinary, unnaturalimmānisimmense, enormous, huge, vast; brutal, inhuman, frightful, savagehorribilishorrible, terrible, dreadful, fearfulhorrendushorrible, horrendous, horrific, horrid, dreadful, dreaded, frightful, awfulsaevusfurious, ferocious, fierce, violent, barbarous, cruel, savage
The English word tremendous itself goes back to Latin tremendus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tremendous
terribilis: formidolosus: reformidandus: metuendus: timendus (☞ formidabilis only poetical) [SYN. in FEARFUL]: ingens: immanis (huge, monstrous). Very tremendous, horribilis; horrendus; saevus: a tremendous storm, tempestas turbulentissima, vehementissima: to be tremendous, formidini, terrori esse alicui.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tremendous?
- The usual Latin words for “tremendous” are terribilis, formīdulōsus, reformīdō; also metuō, timeō, ingēns. 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.