English → Latin
“valid” in Latin
bonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; usefuliūstusjust, righteous; lawful, legal; justified, merited, well-deserved, dueidōneussuitable, proper, fit, apt, convenient; sufficientreorto reckon, calculate; to think, consider, deem, judge, believe, suppose, suspect, imaginelēgitimuslawful, legal, legitimate; legal (of or pertaining to the law); legitimate (born of married parents)gravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardadulterīnusadulterous, unchaste; not genuine, false, counterfeit, impureargūmentumargument (as in an argument for a position); evidence, a proof; a point, a theme; a topic, thesiscumwith, along with; at (denoting a point in time with which an action coincides); -fold (with ordinal number)
The English word valid itself goes back to Latin valeō, through validus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
valid
bonus (good; opposed to malus, bad, or adulterinus, counterfeit): justus (such as it ought to be): idoneus (fit, proper): ratus (confirmed, ratified). (The words are found in this connection and order.) ratus ac firmus (well established): legitimus (conformable to law): firmus ad probandum (that proves, convincing; e.g., argumentum): gravis (weighty; hence also, convincing; e.g., argumentum; ☞ Cic., Rosc., Com., 12, 36, argumentum gravissimum et firmissimum: i. e., the most valid, proof). To be valid, valere (general term); vigere (to be in vogue, to continue in force); ratum esse (to be firmly established; of laws, decrees, compacts); exerceri (to be in force; of laws; Liv., 6, 51): esse (to exist: ☞ obtinere or obtineri is quite unclassical in the sense of valere; Vid: Klotz, Cic., Tusc., 5, 41, 118, and is even wrong in the sense of esse): to admit anything as valid, aliquid ratum habere or ducere; aliquid probare, approbare, comprobare (to approve of it); aliquid accipere, admittere (to accept, allow).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for valid?
- The usual Latin words for “valid” are bonus, iūstus, idōneus; also reor, lēgitimus, gravis. 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.