adultery Copy link Outline 1. ădultĕrĭum2. stuprum (properly and in legal sense only of commerce with an unmarried woman • adultery: 1. ădultĕrĭum: to practise a., adulteria exercere, Suet.: to be detected in the act of a., in adulterio deprehendi, Cic.: to commit a. with a man's wife, a. committere in uxorem alienam, Dig.: to commit an act of a., ad. facere, Cat.: v. also adulterously. 2. stuprum (properly and in legal sense only of commerce with an unmarried woman: but in ordinary language of all irregular commerce): he committed a. with the queen, s. reginae intulit, Cic.: matrons condemned for a., matronae stupri damnatae, Liv. Join: stupra et adulteria. Phr.: to commit a., adultero, 1: Cic.: moechor, 1: Hor.: Cat.