Latin

Noun

peccātum n ‎(genitive peccātī); second declension

1. sin, error, fault
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Ioannes 8:34

     omnis qvi facit peccatvm servvs est peccati

     Everyone who does sin is a slave of sin

Inflection

Second declension.

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Descendants

References

• peccatum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peccatum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PECCATUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “peccatum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti