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Latin
Etymology
From peccō (“offend, sin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
peccātum n (genitive peccātī); second declension
- sin, error, fault
- Synonyms: dēlictum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, culpa, error, dēlinquentia, facinus, malum, iniūria, maleficium
- Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 8:34:Omnis quī facit peccātum servus est peccātī.- Everyone who does sin is a slave of sin.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “peccatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “peccatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- peccatum 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)
- peccatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti