piaculum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin piāculum. Doublet of piacle. === Noun === piaculum (plural piacula) An expiatory sacrifice. The victim in such a sacrifice. An act requiring expiation. ==== Related terms ==== piacular == Latin == === Etymology === From piō (“to appease, purify, expiate”) +‎ -culum (instrumental suffix). Given Umbrian pihaclu (abl. sg.), Proto-Italic *pwīāklom can be reconstructed. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [piˈaː.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [piˈaː.ku.lum] === Noun === piāculum n (genitive piāculī); second declension propitiatory sacrifice, expiation, atonement Synonym: lūstrum an animal offered up in sacrifice, a victim sin, crime, guilt ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== English: → piaculum (learned), → (if not borrowed from Old French) piacle (semi-learned) Italian: → piacolo (semi-learned), → piaculo (learned) → Old French: piacle (learned) → English: (if not borrowed directly from Latin) piacle (learned) === References === “piaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “piaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “piaculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.