Latin

Noun

flāgitium n ‎(genitive flāgitiī); second declension

1. A disgraceful action, shameful crime.

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

2. Shame, disgrace, outrage.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• flāgitiōsus

Descendants

• Portuguese: flagício

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “flagitium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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