flagitium

== Latin == === Etymology === From flāgitō (“demand, press”) +‎ -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɫaːˈɡɪ.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [flaˈd͡ʒit.t͡si.um] === Noun === flāgitium n (genitive flāgitiī or flāgitī); second declension disgraceful or shameful action, deed, or crime; scandal Synonyms: maleficium, crīmen, culpa, vitium, facinus, scelus shame, disgrace, outrage ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== 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 “flagitium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.