Expertlatin
Other Latin Words Imported Into English
| Latin Word | Definition | English Derivatives |
|---|---|---|
| obscura | dark | obscure, obscured, obscurity |
| periculosa | dangerous | perilous, peril |
| propinqua | near to | propinquity |
| pulchra | beautiful | pulchritude |
- What words mean dark Latin?
- What is a fancy word for chaos?
- What is the Greek root word for dark?
- What is a creepy word?
- What is chaos in Latin?
- What is the Latin root for evil?
- What is Latin for sinister?
- What is an ancient word for evil?
- What is the Greek word for chaos?
- Is chaos a Greek word?
- What is a fancy word for black?
- What is a good f word?
- What word class is nasty?
What words mean dark Latin?
acerbus : bitter, gloomy, dark.
What is a fancy word for chaos?
anarchy, disarray, discord, disorder, lawlessness, pandemonium, tumult, turmoil, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, misrule, mix up, mobocracy, muddle, snarl, unruliness.
What is the Greek root word for dark?
scotia (from the Greek skotía, “darkness”)
What is a creepy word?
awful, disgusting, disturbing, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, macabre, menacing, ominous, sinister, terrifying, weird, direful, dreadful, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, nightmarish.
What is chaos in Latin?
Etymology. From Late Latin chaoticus (“of or pertaining to the primordial state of the universe”), from Latin chaos (“chaos”) + -ticus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as chaos + -otic.
What is the Latin root for evil?
The Latin root word mal means “bad” or “evil.” This root is the word origin of many English vocabulary words, including malformed, maltreat, and malice.
What is Latin for sinister?
Sinister (Latin for 'left') indicates the left-hand side as regarded by the bearer – the bearer's proper left, and to the right as seen by the viewer. In vexillology, the equivalent terms are hoist and fly.
What is an ancient word for evil?
Old English yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious, ill, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (source also of Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, Dutch euvel, Old High German ubil, German übel, Gothic ubils), from PIE *upelo-, from root *wap- "bad, evil" (source also of Hittite huwapp- "evil").
What is the Greek word for chaos?
Greek: χάος (cháos) → English: chaos.
Is chaos a Greek word?
The English word chaos is borrowed from the Greek word that means "abyss." In ancient Greece, Chaos was originally thought of as the abyss or emptiness that existed before things came into being, and then the word chaos was used to refer to a specific abyss: the abyss of Tartarus, the underworld.
What is a fancy word for black?
OTHER WORDS FOR black
1 dark, dusky; sooty, inky; sable, ebony.
What is a good f word?
A few positive words that start with the letter F include: Fabulous, Fair, Faith, Favorable, Feel-good, Festive, Flourish, Fluffy, and Fortunate.
What word class is nasty?
adjective, nas·ti·er, nas·ti·est. physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room. offensive to taste or smell; nauseating: This ointment is really nasty—couldn't they make it smell less vile?
