opprobrium

Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium (“reproach, disgrace”), first attested [1656], from opprobrō (“reproach, taunt”), from ob (“against”) + probrum (“disgrace, dishonor”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɹoʊbɹi.əm/

opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)

1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
2. Scornful reproach or contempt.
3. A cause of shame or disgrace.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:opprobrium.

• (disgrace): obloquy
• (scornful reproach): blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation
• (cause of shame or disgrace): curse

• opprobrious

• obprobrium

From opprobrō +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /opˈpro.bri.um/, [ɔpˈprɔ.bri.ũ]

opprobrium n (genitive opprobriī); second declension

1. reproach, taunt
2. scandal, disgrace, dishonour, shame

Second declension.

• opprobriōsus

• French: opprobre
• Portuguese: opróbrio
• Spanish: oprobio, oprobrio

• opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opprobrium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opprobrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette