English → Latin
“vagabond” in Latin
vaguswandering, rambling, strolling, roving, roaming, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant; wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant,errābunduswanderingvagorto ramble, wander, stroll about, roam, rove; to waver, be unsettled
The English word vagabond itself goes back to Latin vagus, through vagābundus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vagabond
One who wanders about, vagus: errabundus (not vagabundus. Erro in the younger Plin.; ☞ in classical writers, errare denotes an involuntary wandering; vagare, that which is voluntary): aliquis de ponte (a beggar at a bridge, Juv., 14, 134): subrostraneus (one who loiters near the rostra): homo qui circum fora vicosque vagus est (one who wanders about; the latter after Plaut., Mil., 2, 5, 14). ☞ Grassator was one who wandered about the streets of a town, engaged passengers in quarrels, and robbed them; = one of the swell mob).
Rascal, Vid: (fugitivus, Ter., Phorm., 5, 8, 38).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vagabond?
- The usual Latin words for “vagabond” are vagus, errābundus, vagor. 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.