flagitium

Latin

Etymology

From flāgitō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /flaːˈɡi.ti.um/, [fɫ̪äːˈɡɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flaˈd͡ʒit.t͡si.um/, [fläˈd͡ʒit̪ː͡s̪ium]

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. [1]

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

• flāgitiōsus

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^[2], 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