periurium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

periūrus +‎ -ium.

Noun

periūrium n (genitive periūriī or periūrī); second declension

  1. A false oath; perjury

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative periūrium periūria
Genitive periūriī
periūrī1		 periūriōrum
Dative periūriō periūriīs
Accusative periūrium periūria
Ablative periūriō periūriīs
Vocative periūrium periūria

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

Descendants

References
  • “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • periurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to commit perjury, perjure oneself: periurium facere; peierare
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