flagitium

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Latin

Etymology

From flāgitō (“demand, press”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

flāgitium n (genitive flāgitiī or flāgitī); second declension

  1. A disgraceful action, shameful crime, scandal.
    Synonyms: maleficium, crīmen, culpa, vitium, facinus, scelus
  2. Shame, disgrace, outrage.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative flāgitium flāgitia
genitive flāgitiī
flāgitī1 		flāgitiōrum
dative flāgitiō flāgitiīs
accusative flāgitium flāgitia
ablative flāgitiō flāgitiīs
vocative flāgitium flāgitia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: flagício

References

  • “flagitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flagitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flagitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis, vitiis dedita
    • a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis inquinata
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