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Latin
Etymology
From turpis (“ugly; base”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
Noun
turpitūdō f (genitive turpitūdinis); third declension
- ugliness, unsightliness, foulness, deformity
- baseness, indecency, shamefulness, disgrace, dishonor, infamy, turpitude
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “turpitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “turpitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- turpitudo 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)
- turpitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to injure a man's character, tarnish his honour: notam turpitudinis alicui or vitae alicuius inurere