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sceleratus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of scelerō (pollute, defile).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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scelerātus m (genitive scelerātī); second declension

  1. a criminal
  2. a vicious, impious, wicked person
    Synonyms: malus, vitiōsus, scelestus, facinorōsus
  3. villain

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scelerātus scelerātī
genitive scelerātī scelerātōrum
dative scelerātō scelerātīs
accusative scelerātum scelerātōs
ablative scelerātō scelerātīs
vocative scelerāte scelerātī

Descendants

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  • French: scélérat
  • Romanian: scelerat
  • Interlingua: scelerato

Participle

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scelerātus (feminine scelerāta, neuter scelerātum, comparative scelerātior, superlative scelerātissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. Polluted, defiled, having been polluted or defiled; criminal, wicked, infamous, impious; accursed, lying under a ban.
  2. (as a result of criminality or viciousness) Hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unfortunate; made hurtful, poisoned, polluted.
  3. (of a person's actions) Sinful, atrocious, heinous.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • 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.