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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• corrupt (v.):
    1. I. To change from a sound to a putrid state:
      1. 1. corrumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3: esp. as reflect.; to become corrupt, suffer corruption, Cic.
      2. 2. vĭtio, 1: v. to taint: of the action of pestilence on the air, Ov.
      3. 3. In pass.: to become c.'d: putresco, putrĕfīo: v. to rot.
    2. II. In moral sense:
      1. 1. corrumpo, 3: to c. (the morals of) a state, mores civitatis c., Cic.: in the same passage (Leg. 3, 14), corrumpere is used absol.: to c. (men) by example, exemplo c. With the direct acc. (with or without pecunia), corrumpere usu. signifies to bribe (q. v.), or in the case of a woman, to seduce (q. v.).
      2. 2. dēprāvo, 1 (to alter for the worse): the Campanians were c.'d by abundance, Campanos nimiae rerum omnium copiae depravabant, Cic. Join: corrumpere et depravare: Cic. (N.B. Corrumpo by itself is not always taken in bad sense.)
      3. 3. inquĭno, 1: v. defile, pollute.
      4. 4. Expr. with phr.: as, vitiis inficere, Cic.: v. infect: vitia in civitatem infundere, id.: turpissimis imbuere cupiditatibus, Nep.: mala facinora edocere, Sall. Sometimes mutare, immutare, may be sufficient: i. e. when the context shows that the change is for the worse: cf. Sall. Cat. 10, fin. (by a somewhat harsh fig., the latter has vexare mores civitatis, of the influence of bad passions upon them, Cat. 6): in pass. in vitium labi, Hor.: pejorem, deteriorem fieri, etc.: v. to deteriorate: to c. by bribery (besides pecunia corrumpere, v. supr.), pecunia oppugnare, Cic.: sollicitare, Curt.: corruptelam (judicis) moliri, Cic., etc.: v. bribery: by various artifices, (animos militum) variis artibus subruere, Tac.: v. to tamper with, undermine.
    3. III. To debase, falsify: corrumpo, dēprāvo (Cic. uses both of the perverse ingenuity of the lawyers: Mur, 12, 27): v. falsify. Phr.: the language of Greece is very much c.'d, *multum immutata est ac depravata lingua Hellenistica a vetere illo ac puro Graecorum sermone.
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• corrupt (adj.):
    1. I. Decomposed: putrĕfactus, pūtrĭdus, pŭter, corruptus: v. rotten.
    2. II. In moral sense:
      1. 1. corruptus: used both as part. and adj.: Sall.: Cic.
      2. 2. incestus, impūrus: v. impure.
      3. 3. inquīnātus: v. polluted.
    3. III. Accessible to bribery: vēnālis, e: v. venal: also nummārius: Cic.
    4. IV. Not genuine (as a text), or debased (as language): corruptus, dēprāvātus: to alter and mend c. passages, depravatis locis veterum scriptorum mederi, Ruhnk. ap. Kr.: a passage evidently c., locus manifesto vitiatus, Blomf.: somewhat c., cui subest quaedam corruptela, id.
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• CORRUPT
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  • TRANS., corrumpere (PROP. to break to pieces; hence, to make anything utterly bad and unserviceable; also of internal and moral corruption. Also of falsifying writings, documents, etc.): depravare (from pravus, to pervert from its right use, direction, etc.: hence, to make anything relatively bad; also of moral corruption; depravare mores; aliquem). (the words are found in this connection and order), corrumpere ac depravare: vitiare (to destroy the purity or genuineness of anything; e.g., auras; also to falsify writings). (the words are found in this connection and order), vitiare et corrumpere: adulterare (e.g., judicium veri, jus pecunia): infuscare (PROP. to make anything dark-coloured, destroy its transparency; hence, figuratively to make anything impure by some addition; e.g., saporem vini). To corrupt a word (by bad pronunciation), nomen, verbum, etc., corrumpere (Sall.). To corrupt a person, aliquem depravare, or corrumpere; alicujus mores depravare or corrumpere; alicujus animum corrumpere; vitiis suis inficere aliquem; vitia sua alicui allinere, affricare (of one who corrupts by his own bad example, Sen.): aliquem ad nequitiam adducere (Terentianus): to corrupt by indulgence, indulgentia depravare.
  • Make dishonest by bribery, corrumpere, with or without pecunia, mercede, pretio, largitione, etc.: pretio mercari aliquem; largitione alicujus voluntatem redimere (to buy him): donis aliquem ad suam causam perducere (win his support by gifts): largitione alicujus mentem caecare (blind his eyes by a gift). To try to corrupt anybody, aliquem pecunia sollicitare or oppugnare; alicujus animum donis tentare; alicujus corruptelam moliri: to be or allow one’s self to be corrupted, largitionibus moveri; pecuniam accipere (e.g., ob dicendum falsum testimonium); pecuniam accipere ac pretio fidem habere addictam; fidem pecunia mutare by anybody, pecuniam accipere a aliquo; se vendere alicui: not to allow one’s self to be corrupted, largitioni resistere; adversum dona invictum animum gerere (habitually, Sall., Jug., 43, extr.): One who corrupts [Vid: CORRUPTER]. To corrupt the judge (in a cause), judicium corrumpere; jus pecunia adulterare. One who can not be corrupted, incorruptus, integer (opposed to venalis pretio).
2. INTR., putrescere; putrefieri: corrumpi; depravari; vitiari [SYN. in CORRUPT, TRANS.] : pessum ire (to be ruined, destroyed): the corn corrupts, frumentum corrumpitur.
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  • In a moral sense, impurus (impure): incestus (unchaste): inquinatus (polluted): perditus (lost without hope): profligatus (profligate): turpis (vile). (The words are found in this connection and order), perditus profligatusque. Corrupt manners, mores corrupti depravatique; mores turpes; mores perditi. [Vid: also, VICIOUS.]
  • Bribed, venalis pretio: gratia depravatus (by personal or party feeling). [Vid: To CORRUPT = bribe.] A corrupt judge, nummarius judex.
  • Spoiled, corruptus; vitiatus: depravatus: [SYN. in To CORRUPT.]
  • In a state of decomposition, putrefactus: putridus. Corrupt blood, insincerus cruor (Verg.).
  • Falsified, adulterinus; subditus; vitiatus. A corrupt passage, *locus librarii manu depravatus. To restore corrupt passages, *depravatis locis (veterum scriptorum) mederi (Ruhnken). Vid: FALSE.