improperium

From improperō (“to reproach, insult”) + -ium.

improperium n (genitive improperiī or improperī); second declension

1. taunt
2. reproach

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “improperium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "improperium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “improperium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.