sceleratus
Latin
editEtymology
editPerfect passive participle of scelerō (“pollute, defile”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /skeˈle.ra.tus/, [s̠kɛˈɫ̪ɛrät̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ʃeˈle.ra.tus/, [ʃeˈlɛːrät̪us]
Noun
editscelerātus m (genitive scelerātī); second declension
- a criminal
- a vicious, impious, wicked person
- Synonyms: malus, vitiōsus, scelestus, facinorōsus
- villain
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scelerātus | scelerātī |
| genitive | scelerātī | scelerātōrum |
| dative | scelerātō | scelerātīs |
| accusative | scelerātum | scelerātōs |
| ablative | scelerātō | scelerātīs |
| vocative | scelerāte | scelerātī |
Descendants
editParticiple
editscelerātus (feminine scelerāta, neuter scelerātum, comparative scelerātior, superlative scelerātissimus); first/second-declension participle
- Polluted, defiled, having been polluted or defiled; criminal, wicked, infamous, impious; accursed, lying under a ban.
- (as a result of criminality or viciousness) Hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unfortunate; made hurtful, poisoned, polluted.
- (of a person's actions) Sinful, atrocious, heinous.
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | scelerātus | scelerāta | scelerātum | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerāta | |
| genitive | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerātī | scelerātōrum | scelerātārum | scelerātōrum | |
| dative | scelerātō | scelerātae | scelerātō | scelerātīs | |||
| accusative | scelerātum | scelerātam | scelerātum | scelerātōs | scelerātās | scelerāta | |
| ablative | scelerātō | scelerātā | scelerātō | scelerātīs | |||
| vocative | scelerāte | scelerāta | scelerātum | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerāta | |
References
edit- sceleratus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sceleratus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sceleratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.