flagitium

Latin

Etymology

From flāgitō

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /flaːˈɡi.ti.um/, [fɫaːˈɡɪ.ti.ʊ̃]

Noun

flāgitium n (genitive flāgitiī or flāgitī); second declension

  1. A disgraceful action, shameful crime, scandal.
    Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.
  2. Shame, disgrace, outrage.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative flāgitium flāgitia
Genitive flāgitiī
flāgitī1		 flāgitiōrum
Dative flāgitiō flāgitiīs
Accusative flāgitium flāgitia
Ablative flāgitiō flāgitiīs
Vocative flāgitium flāgitia

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Portuguese: flagício

References
  • flagitium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • flagitium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flagitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis, vitiis dedita
    • a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis inquinata
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