furtum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === fūrtus (Late Latin) === Etymology === From fūr (“thief”) +‎ -tus, -tum (“forming participles”), literally “a stolen thing”, as if built on a genuine verb, compare other fūr derivatives as well as those of ūber. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfuːr.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfur.tum] === Noun === fūrtum n (genitive fūrtī); second declension a theft, robbery Near-synonyms: latrocinium, raptum alicui fūrtum facere ― to rob someone thieving, the act of robbing a stolen thing (transferred senses) any secret action: an excuse or pretext crafty deceit, trick, artifice, stratagem (chiefly in the plural) stolen or secret love, intrigue ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). NB: fūrtū is found in Late Latin and early Medieval Latin. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === fūrtum accusative singular of fūrtus === References === “furtum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “furtum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "furtum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “furtum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “furtum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “furtum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin