periurium
Latin
Alternative forms
- perjūrium
Etymology
From periūrus.
Noun
periūrium n (genitive periūriī or periūrī); second declension
- A false oath; perjury
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | periūrium | periūria |
Genitive | periūriī periūrī1 | periūriōrum |
Dative | periūriō | periūriīs |
Accusative | periūrium | periūria |
Ablative | periūriō | periūriīs |
Vocative | periūrium | periūria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: perjuri
- English: perjury
- Galician: perxurio
- Italian: pergiuro, pergiurio, periuro
- Occitan: perjuri
- Portuguese: perjúrio
- Spanish: perjurio
References
- “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “periurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- periurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to commit perjury, perjure oneself: periurium facere; peierare
- to commit perjury, perjure oneself: periurium facere; peierare