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“wrong” in Latin
prāvuscrooked, deformed; depraved, perverse, wicked; vicious, wrong, bad, impropervitiōsusfull of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt; morally faulty, wicked, depraved, viciousfallōto deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint; to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself; to escape the aliēnusOf that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign; unfriendly, inimical, hostile, susincommodusinconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable; troublesome, disagreeablemalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mperperusfaulty, defective; wrong, incorrectcorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rotlaedōto strike, collide, hurt; to offend; to thwartīnferōto carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert; to bring forward, introduce,
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wrong adj.
non justus (not as it ought to be; opposed to justus): pravus (perverse, having a false direction; opposed to rectus): vitiosus (faulty): falsus (false or mistaken; of persons): alienus (not suitable): non opportunus: incommodus (inconvenient). The account is wrong, rationes non convenient: to form a wrong judgement respecting anybody, male, perperam, corrupte, non integre judicare de aliquo: to form a wrong conclusion, vitiose concludes (Cic.): to give a wrong pronunciation to Greek words, perperam, male, Graeca pronuntiare: wrong measure or weight, mensura non justa; pondus non justum: to be wrong in the head, insanum esse; insanire (Cic.); mentis non integrum esse (Hor.): to pursue a wrong course or method, alienam, non rectam inire rationem, or ingredi viam, qua eo quo tendis pervenias, deducaris (after Cic.): to be in the wrong road, aberrasse a recta via (PROP.); a virtute aberrasse (figuratively): the wrong side, aversa pars; aversum latus: the wrong key, clavis falsa, aliena: to come at the wrong time, alieno, non opportuno, tempore, non in tempore, venire: to go into the wrong house, alias, quam volebam, intrare aedes: you are wrong (= mistaken), falsus es (Ter.): the clock is wrong, *horologium errat: to be wrong in computation, errare, falli, in numerando, computando.
wrong v.
laedere (general term, to hurt): injuria afficere aliquem; injuriam alicui facere, inferre, imponere; injuriam jacere or immittere in aliquem (to inflict an injury upon). To think himself wronged, se laesum putare; aegre or moleste ferre; pro molestissimo habere (se, etc.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wrong?
- The usual Latin words for “wrong” are prāvus, vitiōsus, fallō; also aliēnus, incommodus, malus. 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.