periurium

Latin

Alternative forms

• perjūrium

Etymology

periūrus +‎ -ium.

Noun

periūrium n (genitive periūriī or periūrī); second declension

1. A false oath; perjury

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	periūrium	periūria
Genitive	periūriī periūrī1	periūriōrum
Dative	periūriō	periūriīs
Accusative	periūrium	periūria
Ablative	periūriō	periūriīs
Vocative	periūrium	periūria

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

Descendants

• Catalan: perjuri
• English: perjury
• Galician: perxurio
• Italian: pergiuro, pergiurio, periuro
• Occitan: perjuri
• Portuguese: perjúrio
• Spanish: perjurio

References

• “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• periurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to commit perjury, perjure oneself: periurium facere; peierare