뜻

1. 손재주가 있는, 솜씨 좋은, 다재 다능한
2. 빈틈없는, 통찰력이 있는, 독창적인, 영리한
3. 교활한, 간사한, 약삭빠른

1. adroit, dexterous, versatile
2. shrewd, clever, ingenious
3. wily, cunning

예문

• ipse manu laqueos per lubrica fila reflexos in nodum revocat, facilique ligamine tortas innectit pedicas nervosque in vincula tendit, ars olli captare feras, animalia bruta inretire plagis, retinacula denique caecis indeprensa locis erranti opponere praedae, hic ille est venator atrox, qui caede frequenti incautas animas non cessat plectere, Nebroth, qui mundum curvis anfractibus et silvosis horrentem scopulis versuto circuit astu, fraude alios tectisque dolis innectere adortus, porro giganteis alios luctando lacertis frangere, funereos late exercere triumphos, inproba mors, quid non mortalia pectora cogis? (Prudentius, Hamartigenia, section 1 2:45)

  (프루덴티우스, , 2:45)

• Qui bonus est, hauriet gratiam a Domino, virum autem versutum ipse condemnabit. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Proverbiorum, 12 12:2)

  착한 이는 주님에게서 총애를 받고 교활한 자는 단죄를 받는다. (불가타 성경, 잠언, 12장 12:2)

• Homo versutus celat scientiam, et cor insipientium provocat stultitiam. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Proverbiorum, 12 12:23)

  영리한 사람은 지식을 덮어 두지만 우둔한 자의 마음은 어리석음을 외쳐 댄다. (불가타 성경, 잠언, 12장 12:23)

• Impatiens operabitur stultitiam, et vir versutus odiosus est. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Proverbiorum, 14 14:17)

  화를 잘 내는 자는 미련한 짓을 하고 음흉한 사람은 미움을 받는다. (불가타 성경, 잠언, 14장 14:17)

• Qui paulatim eruditiores facti processu temporis ad nocendum, per clandestinos versutosque rumigerulos, compertis leviter addere quaedam male suetos, falsa et placentia sibi discentes, affectati regni vel artium nefandarum calumnias insontibus affigebant. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XIV, chapter 1 2:2)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 1장 2:2)

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.)

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