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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of corrumpō.
Participle
corruptus (feminine corrupta, neuter corruptum); first/second-declension participle
- perverted, corrupted
- spoiled
- contaminated
- seduced
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “corruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corruptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- corruptus 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)
- corruptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis
- moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi
- amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus