Latin

Noun

supplicium n ‎(genitive suppliciī); second declension

1. kneeling, supplication
2. punishment
3. suffering
4. torture

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: supplice
• Portuguese: suplício
• Spanish: suplicio

References

• supplicium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• supplicium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SUPPLICIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “supplicium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to expiate a crime by punishment: scelus supplicio expiare
    
  • to exact a penalty from some one: supplicium sumere de aliquo
    
  • to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere
    
  • to execute the death-sentence on a person: supplicium sumere de aliquo
    
  • to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
    
• supplicium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers