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Interlingua
Noun
adulterio (plural adulterios)
- adultery
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dulˈtɛ.rjo/
- Rhymes: -ɛrjo
- Hyphenation: a‧dul‧tè‧rio
Noun
adulterio m (plural adulteri)
- adultery
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin adulterium, from adulter.
Noun
adulterio m (Latin spelling)
- adultery
Latin
Noun
adulteriō
- dative/ablative singular of adulterium
References
- “adulterio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adulterio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- adulterio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Old Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adulterium (“adultery, pollution, defilement”), from adulterō (“I adulterate, defile”).
Pronunciation
Noun
adulterio m (usually uncountable)
- defilement, rape
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 45r:fijos de iacob uinieron ſobre los matados e ṕaron la cibdat de quanto que fallaron toda ſu conpana ⁊ todas ſus mugieres captiuaron por el duelo del adulterẏo de dina ſu ermana- [fijos de Jacob vinieron sobre los matados e prearon la cibdat de quanto que fallaron. Toda su conpana e todas sus mugieres captivaron por el duelo del adulterio de Dina, su ermana.]
- sons of Jacob came upon the dead and looted from the city everything they found. They took all its children and women captive out of sorrow over the defilement of their sister Dinah.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish adulterio, from Latin adulterium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adulˈteɾjo/
- Rhymes: -eɾjo
- Syllabification: a‧dul‧te‧rio
Noun
adulterio m (plural adulterios)
- adultery
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