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scelestus
scelestus
Latin
Adjective
scelestus m (feminine scelesta, neuter scelestum); first/second declension
- wicked, villainous, abominable
- calamitous, unfortunate
- (substantive) a wicked person.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | scelestus | scelesta | scelestum | scelestī | scelestae | scelesta | |
| genitive | scelestī | scelestae | scelestī | scelestōrum | scelestārum | scelestōrum | |
| dative | scelestō | scelestō | scelestīs | ||||
| accusative | scelestum | scelestam | scelestum | scelestōs | scelestās | scelesta | |
| ablative | scelestō | scelestā | scelestō | scelestīs | |||
| vocative | sceleste | scelesta | scelestum | scelestī | scelestae | scelesta | |
Derived terms
References
- scelestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scelestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scelestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.