adulterium

Latin

Etymology

From adulterō +‎ -ium.

Noun

adulterium n (genitive adulteriī or adulterī); second declension

1. adultery

   Synonym: stuprum

2. adulteration, contamination

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adulterium	adulteria
Genitive	adulteriī adulterī1	adulteriōrum
Dative	adulteriō	adulteriīs
Accusative	adulterium	adulteria
Ablative	adulteriō	adulteriīs
Vocative	adulterium	adulteria

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

Descendants

Descendants of adulterium in other languages

• Asturian: adulteriu
• Catalan: adulteri
• English: adultery
• French: adultère
• → Polish: (Middle Polish) adulterium (learned)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: adultéri
• Galician: adulterio
• Old French: avoltierge, avolterie, avouterie
  • Middle English: avoutrie
    • English: advowtry, avowtry
• Portuguese: adultério
• Romanian: adulter
• Spanish: adulterio

References

• “adulterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulterium 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)
• adulterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “adulterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “adulterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Alternative forms

• adulteria

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adulterium. First attested in 1626–1639.

Pronunciation

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /a.dulˈtɛ.rjum/

Noun

adulterium n

1. (Middle Polish) adultery (sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse)

   Synonyms: cudzołóstwo, zdrada małżeńska

Declension

Attested forms of adulterium

	singular	plural
nominative	adulterium	adulteria
genitive	—	—
dative	—	—
accusative	adulterium	—
instrumental	—	—
locative	—	—
vocative	—	—

Related terms

noun

• adultyzm

 

verb

• (Middle Polish) adulterować impf

 

References

• Kazimierz Żelazko (25.09.2014) “ADULTERIUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]