뜻

1. 교활한, 약삭빠른, 간사한, 간교한
2. 현명한, 지혜가 있는, 신중한, 똑똑한, 재치 있는, 영리한

1. cunning, sly, crafty
2. wise, clever, ingenious

예문

• Ac si res exigit, ut plurimi mares progenerandi sint, Aristoteles vir callidissimus rerum naturae praecipit admissurae tempore observare siccis diebus halitus septentrionales, utcontra ventum gregem pascamus, et eum spectans admittatur pecus: (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 7, chapter 3 12:1)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 7권, 3장 12:1)

• vidit autem vir omnium callidissimus in magno se fore periculo, nisi quid providisset, propter avaritiam Cretensium: (Cornelius Tacitus, Vitae, Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium, chapter 9 2:1)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, , , 9장 2:1)

• Quippe rex callidissimus populum Romanum armis invictum opibus adgressus est; (Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum, book 1, BELLUM IVGURTHINUM 2:2)

  (루키우스 안나이우스 플로루스, , 1권, 2:2)

• Et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus agri, quae fecerat Dominus Deus. Qui dixit ad mulierem: "Verene praecepit vobis Deus, ut non comederetis de omni ligno paradisi?". (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 3 3:1)

  뱀은 주 하느님께서 만드신 모든 들짐승 가운데에서 가장 간교하였다. 그 뱀이 여자에게 물었다. “하느님께서 ‘너희는 동산의 어떤 나무에서든지 열매를 따 먹어서는 안 된다.’고 말씀하셨다는데 정말이냐?” (불가타 성경, 창세기, 3장 3:1)

• et callide cogitantes tulerunt sibi cibaria, saccos veteres asinis imponentes et utres vinarios vetustos, scissos atque consutos, (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Iosue, 9 9:4)

  그들 나름대로 속임수를 쓰기로 하였다. 그래서 그들은 양식을 싼 다음, 낡아 빠진 자루와 낡고 갈라져서 꿰맨 포도주 부대를 나귀에 싣고서 길을 떠났다. (불가타 성경, 여호수아기, 9장 9:4)

유의어 사전

Astutus or in old Latin astus (from ἀκή, acuere), and callidus, denote cunning, more in an intellectual sense, as a mark of cleverness; astutus, indeed, acuteness in the invention and execution of a secret project, synonymous with solers; but callidus (from κάλλος), sharp-sightedness in judging of a complicated question of conduct, or worldly wisdom, as the consequence of a knowledge of mankind, and of intercourse with the world, synonymous with rerum peritus, as judicious, and, in its degenerate signification, crafty, like κερδαλέος; on the other hand, vafer and versutus denote cunning in a moral sense, as a mark of dishonesty, and, indeed, vafer (ὑφή), adroitness in introducing tricks, particularly in judicial affairs, as the tricks of a lawyer, like πανοῦργος; versutus (ἀρτυτός), versatility in dissimulation, and in the art of getting out of a scrape by some means or other; in opp. to simplex, Cic. Fin. iv. 25, like στροφαῖος. Plin. Ep. vii. 6. Juvenis ingeniosus, sed parum callidus. Cic. Brut. 48. Callidus, et in capiendo adversario versutus. (iii. 220.)

1. Sapiens (from σήπω) is the person who chooses right objects, from ennobling views, and pursues them with quietness of mind; prudens and callidus denote the person who chooses right means, and regulates them with circumspection; prudentia is a natural judiciousness, pervading a man’s whole nature: calliditas, an acquired knowledge of the world and of men, gained by experience and practice. Cic. Fr. Scaur. 5. Hominis prudentis natura, callidi usu, doctrina eruditi. 2. Prudens is the person who has accurate practical views, in opp. to stultus; scitus, who has tact, mother-wit, and the faculty of combination; solers, who possesses practical genius and inventive power; cordatus, who has his head in the right place, in opp. to excors; catus, who discovers and knows secret means and ways. (v. 114.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein