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sceleratum

sceleratum is a Latin form of scelero, meaning “pollute with crime; (sceleratus) wicked, criminal”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.77: … idem amplius quam trium iudicum praeclarae leges Corneliae faciunt potestatem, hunc hominem tam crudelem, tam sceleratum, tam nefarium nolunt iudicare.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.48.7: foedum inhumanumque inde traditur scelus monumentoque locus est—Sceleratum uicum uocant—quo amens, agitantibus furiis sororis ac uiri, Tullia per patris corpus carpentum egisse fertur, …

All forms of scelero (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.