periurium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

periūrus +‎ -ium.

Noun

periūrium n (genitive periūriī or periūrī); second declension

  1. a false oath; perjury, perfidy, treachery
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.541–542:
      “[...] Nescīs heu, perdita, necdum / Lāomedontēae sentīs periūria gentis?”
      “Alas, ruined [woman], do you not know, nor yet understand the perfidy of Laomedon’s people?”
      (A reputation of the Trojans whose king Laomedon did not keep his word to the gods.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to commit perjury, perjure oneself: periurium facere; peierare
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