flagitium

From flāgitō (“demand, press”) +‎ -ium.

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

flāgitium n (genitive flāgitiī or flāgitī); second declension

1. A disgraceful action, shameful crime, scandal.

   Synonyms: maleficium, crīmen, culpa, vitium, facinus, scelus

   • c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4‎:

     Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.

     The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.

2. Shame, disgrace, outrage.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• flāgitiōsus

• Portuguese: flagício

• “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, 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