sceleratus

sceleratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of scelerō (pollute, defile).

Pronunciation

Noun

scelerātus m (genitive scelerātī); second declension

  1. a criminal
  2. a vicious, impious, wicked person
    Synonyms: malus, vitiōsus, scelestus, facinorōsus
  3. villain

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scelerātus scelerātī
genitive scelerātī scelerātōrum
dative scelerātō scelerātīs
accusative scelerātum scelerātōs
ablative scelerātō scelerātīs
vocative scelerāte scelerātī

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: scelleratu, scilleratu
    • Italian: scellerato
    • Neapolitan: scellerato
    • Sicilian: scialaratu, sciliratu
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: scelleraddo
  • Borrowings:
    • Catalan: celerat, escelerat
    • Interlingua: scelerato
    • Middle French: scéléré
      • French: scélérat (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: scelerat
    • Spanish: escelerado (obsolete)

Participle

scelerātus (feminine scelerāta, neuter scelerātum, comparative scelerātior, superlative scelerātissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. polluted, defiled, having been polluted or defiled; criminal, wicked, infamous, impious; accursed, lying under a ban.
  2. (as a result of criminality or viciousness) hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unfortunate; made hurtful, poisoned, polluted.
  3. (of a person's actions) sinful, atrocious, heinous.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • sceleratus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
  • sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sceleratus", 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)
  • sceleratus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.