English → Latin
“unchaste” in Latin
impūrusunclean, filthy, foul, dirty; impure, defiled, filthy, infamous, vileincestusunclean, impure, polluted, defiled, sinful, unrighteous, criminal; unchaste, lewd, incestuous, lustfulimpudīcusshameless, impudent; unchaste, impure, immodest, immoral, lewdlibīdinōsuslibidinous, licentious, lecherous; passionate; yearning for somethingobscēnusinauspicious, ominous, portentous; repulsive, offensive, abominable, hateful, disgusting, filthy; immodest, impure, indevocōto call, summon, beckon (with one's voice); to name, designate; to bring or put (into a state or condition)flāgitiumdisgraceful or shameful action, deed, or crime; scandal; shame, disgrace, outrage
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
unchaste
impurus (general term; not pure, vicious; of persons, their sentiments and manners): incestus (not pure, not chaste; with reference to religion, purity of manner or morals; of persons, and things; e.g., conversation, sermo; words, voces; deed, flagitium; love, amor): impudicus (without shame, violating all chaste feeling; of persons; e.g., woman, mulier): libidinosus (delivering one’s self up to one’s passions and lusts; lustful; of persons and things; e.g., love, amor): parum verecundus (indecent, void of any proper feeling of decency; also of things; e.g., words): obscenus or obscoenus (exciting disgust by its sight, or by being heard; dirty, unchaste, of things; e.g., words, gestures, and motions of the body). Very unchaste, omni libidine impudicus: an unchaste life, vita parum verecunda (shameless, immoral): vita libidinibus dedita (sensual, voluptuous): unchaste love, amor impudicus: impudicitia (especially of the female sex): amor libidinosus: libidines (especially of the male sex; Vid: commentators on Suet., Oct., 71): to be unchaste, libidines consectari.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for unchaste?
- The usual Latin words for “unchaste” are impūrus, incestus, impudīcus; also libīdinōsus, obscēnus, vocō. 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.