sceleratus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of scelerō (“pollute, defile”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skeˈle.ra.tus/, [s̠kɛˈɫ̪ɛrät̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ʃeˈle.ra.tus/, [ʃeˈlɛːrät̪us]
Noun edit
scelerātus m (genitive scelerātī); second declension
- a criminal
- a vicious, impious, wicked person
- Synonyms: malus, vitiōsus, scelestus, facinorōsus
- villain
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scelerātus | scelerātī |
| Genitive | scelerātī | scelerātōrum |
| Dative | scelerātō | scelerātīs |
| Accusative | scelerātum | scelerātōs |
| Ablative | scelerātō | scelerātīs |
| Vocative | scelerāte | scelerātī |
Descendants edit
Participle edit
scelerātus (feminine scelerāta, neuter scelerātum, comparative scelerātior, superlative scelerātissimus); first/second-declension participle
- Polluted, defiled, having been polluted or defiled; criminal, wicked, infamous, impious; accursed, lying under a ban.
- (as a result of criminality or viciousness) Hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unfortunate; made hurtful, poisoned, polluted.
- (of a person's actions) Sinful, atrocious, heinous.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | scelerātus | scelerāta | scelerātum | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerāta | |
| Genitive | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerātī | scelerātōrum | scelerātārum | scelerātōrum | |
| Dative | scelerātō | scelerātō | scelerātīs | ||||
| Accusative | scelerātum | scelerātam | scelerātum | scelerātōs | scelerātās | scelerāta | |
| Ablative | scelerātō | scelerātā | scelerātō | scelerātīs | |||
| Vocative | scelerāte | scelerāta | scelerātum | scelerātī | scelerātae | scelerāta | |
References edit
- 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’s 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.