Latin

Noun

adulterium n ‎(genitive adulteriī); second declension

1. adultery
2. adulteration, contamination

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: adultery
• French: adultère
• Portuguese: adultério

References

• adulterium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adulterium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ADULTERIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adulterium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• adulterium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulterium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin