corruptio

Latin

Etymology

From corrumpō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈrʊp.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈrup.t͡si.o]

Noun

corruptiō f (genitive corruptiōnis); third declension

1. corruption
2. bribery
3. corrupt state or condition

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	corruptiō	corruptiōnēs
genitive	corruptiōnis	corruptiōnum
dative	corruptiōnī	corruptiōnibus
accusative	corruptiōnem	corruptiōnēs
ablative	corruptiōne	corruptiōnibus
vocative	corruptiō	corruptiōnēs

Related terms

• corrumpere, corrumpo
• corrupte
• corruptela
• corruptor
• corruptus

Descendants

• → Armenian: կոռուպցիա (koṙupcʻia)
• → Asturian: corrupción (learned)
• → Catalan: corrupció (learned)
• → Czech: korupce
• → English: corruption
• → Finnish: korruptio
• → Galician: corrupción (learned)
• → German: Korruption
• → Italian: corruzione (learned)
• → Occitan: corrupcion (learned)
• → Old French: corruption (learned)
  • French: corruption
    • → Dutch: corruptie
• → Polish: korupcja
• → Portuguese: corrupção (learned)
• → Romanian: corupție
• → Russian: корру́пция (korrúpcija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: корупција, korupcija
• → Sicilian: curruzziuni (older), curruzioni (learned)
• → Spanish: corrupción (learned)
• → Ukrainian: корупція (korupcija)

References

• “corruptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corruptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "corruptio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “corruptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.