scelerat

Borrowed from French scélérat, from Latin scelerātus, past participle of scelerāre (“to pollute, defile”), from scelus (“crime”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləɹət/, /ˈsɛləɹæt/

scelerat (plural scelerats)

1. (obsolete) A criminal, a villain.
   • 1715, George Cheyne, “Of the Philosophical Principles of Reveal’d Religion. Corollary I.”, in Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: […] Philosophical Principles of Religion. Part II. […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, page 88:

     Hence it is, that Scelerats, can by no Arts, nor any Amuſements hovv violent ſoever, ſtifle the Cries of a vvounded Conſcience; […]

• Alcester, clearest, treacles

scelerat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of scelerō

Borrowed from French scélérat, from Latin sceleratus.

scelerat m (plural scelerați)

1. scoundrel