peccatum

Latin

Etymology

From peccō (“offend, sin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pekˈkaː.tum/, [pɛkˈkäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pekˈka.tum/, [pekˈkäːt̪um]

Noun

peccātum n (genitive peccātī); second declension

1. sin, error, fault
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 8:34:

     Omnis quī facit peccātum servus est peccātī.

     Everyone who does sin is a slave of sin.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	peccātum	peccāta
Genitive	peccātī	peccātōrum
Dative	peccātō	peccātīs
Accusative	peccātum	peccāta
Ablative	peccātō	peccātīs
Vocative	peccātum	peccāta

Related terms

• peccanter
• peccantia
• peccāmen
• peccāns
• peccātiō
• peccātor
• peccātrīx
• peccātus
• peccātēla
• peccātōrius
• peccō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: picat
• Asturian: pecáu
• Catalan: pecat
• Friulian: pecjât, pečhât
• Galician: pecado
• Istro-Romanian: pecåt
• Italian: peccato
• Neapolitan: peccato
• Occitan: pecat
• Old French: pechié
  • Middle French: peché
    • French: péché
  • Jersey Norman: péché
• Portuguese: pecado
• Romanian: păcat
• Romansch: putgà, puchà, puccau
• Sardinian: pecadu, pecau
• Sicilian: piccatu
• Spanish: pecado
• Venetian: pecà
• → Albanian: mëkat
• Berber: abekkaḍ (borrowed)
• → Irish: peaca
• → Scottish Gaelic: peacadh
• → Welsh: pechod

References

• “peccatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peccatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peccatum 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)
• peccatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti