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Latin
Etymology
From prō + pudet + -ium.
Noun
prōpudium n (genitive prōpudiī or prōpudī); second declension
- A shameful act
- A shameful person; wretch, villain
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- “propudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- propudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.