English → Latin
“wrongly” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mvitiōsusfull of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt; morally faulty, wicked, depraved, viciousperperusfaulty, defective; wrong, incorrectfalsusdeceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having been deceived; mistaken, having been mistaken, having deceived myself; secusotherwise, to the contrary; differentlycorrumpōto pervert, corrupt, deprave or infect; to gain to oneself by gifts, etc.; bribe; to spoil or rot
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wrongly
male (opposed to bene): vitiose (opposed to integre): non recte: minus recte: perperam: falso (☞ perperam with reference to the object, falso with reference to the subject; the former of a thing which is not right, the latter of a person who is mistaken or is in error). To judge wrongly, male, perperam, secus, corrupte, non recte judicare: to conclude wrongly, male, perperam, vitiose concludere, colligere (after Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wrongly?
- The usual Latin words for “wrongly” are malus, vitiōsus, perperus; also falsus, secus, corrumpō. 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.