Latin edit

Etymology edit

From peccō (offend, sin).

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Noun edit

peccātum n (genitive peccātī); second declension

  1. 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 edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative peccātum peccāta
Genitive peccātī peccātōrum
Dative peccātō peccātīs
Accusative peccātum peccāta
Ablative peccātō peccātīs
Vocative peccātum peccāta

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References edit

  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti