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“vehemently” in Latin
vehemēnsvery eager; impetuous, ardent, furious; vehement; emphaticgravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardācersharp, sour, bitter, pungent; keen, sharp, acute, sagacious; energetic, active, vigorousacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, viārdenterpassionately, ardently, eagerlyavidusgreedy, avaricious, covetous; eager, enthusiastic, desiring, desirous; lustful, passionate; eager, hungry, voracious, glīrācundushasty of temper, hot-tempered, irritable, irascible, predisposed to anger, prone to anger, quick to anger; passionate, wimportūnusinconvenient, unsuitable; annoying; rude
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vehemently
vehementer: graviter: acriter: acerbe [SYN. in VEHEMENT]: ardenter (ardently): ferventer (fervently): avide (with avidity): iracunde (in great anger): magno impetu (e.g., to attack, hostem aggredi): importune (importunately). To fight vehemently, vehementer contendere: to cry out vehemently, valde clamare: to speak vehemently, acriter, or concitate, or magna contentione dicere; ferventer loqui: to pursue the enemy too vehemently, cupidius or avidius hostem insequi: to proceed vehemently, calide agere: to oppose vehemently, vehementer repugnare: to urge vehemently, vehementer, or valde, or etiam atque etiam, or obnixe, or impense rogare; aliquem aliquid flagitare or efflagitare (to demand impetuously); contendere aliquid ab aliquo (to insist upon): to write too vehemently, iracundius scribere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vehemently?
- The usual Latin words for “vehemently” are vehemēns, gravis, ācer; also acerbus, ārdenter, avidus. 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.