adulterium

Latin

Etymology

From adulterō +‎ -ium.

Noun

adulterium n (genitive adulteriī or adulterī); second declension

1. adultery
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

• Galician: adulterio
• Old French: avoltierge
• Portuguese: adultério
• 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