sceleratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of scelerō (“pollute, defile”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skeˈle.ra.tus/, [s̠kɛˈɫ̪ɛrät̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃeˈle.ra.tus/, [ʃeˈlɛːrät̪us]

Noun

scelerātus m (genitive scelerātī); second declension

1. a criminal
2. a vicious, impious, wicked

   Synonyms: malus, vitiōsus, scelestus, facinorōsus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scelerātus	scelerātī
Genitive	scelerātī	scelerātōrum
Dative	scelerātō	scelerātīs
Accusative	scelerātum	scelerātōs
Ablative	scelerātō	scelerātīs
Vocative	scelerāte	scelerātī

Participle

scelerātus (feminine scelerāta, neuter scelerātum, comparative scelerātior, superlative scelerātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. Polluted, defiled, having been polluted or defiled; criminal, wicked, infamous, impious; accursed, lying under a ban.
2. (as a result of criminality or viciousness) Hurtful, harmful, noxious, pernicious, unfortunate; made hurtful, poisoned, polluted.
3. (of a person's actions) Sinful, atrocious, heinous.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	scelerātus	scelerāta	scelerātum		scelerātī	scelerātae	scelerāta
Genitive	scelerātī	scelerātae	scelerātī		scelerātōrum	scelerātārum	scelerātōrum
Dative	scelerātō		scelerātō		scelerātīs
Accusative	scelerātum	scelerātam	scelerātum		scelerātōs	scelerātās	scelerāta
Ablative	scelerātō	scelerātā	scelerātō		scelerātīs
Vocative	scelerāte	scelerāta	scelerātum		scelerātī	scelerātae	scelerāta

References

• sceleratus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sceleratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sceleratus 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)
• sceleratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette