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cruciatum

cruciatum is a Latin form of crucio, meaning “torture, torment; (cruciatus) torture”.

It can also be a form of cruciatus, “torture, torment”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural masculine.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.2: Ea re impetrata sese omnes flentes Caesari ad pedes proiecerunt: non minus se id contendere et laborare ne ea quae dixissent enuntiarentur quam uti ea quae vellent impetrarent, propterea quod, si enuntiatum esset, summum in cruciatum se venturos viderent.

Plautus, Persa 5.2.786: quem pól ego ut non in crúciatum atque in cómpedis cogam, sí vivam,

All forms of crucio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.