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

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Contents (2 entries · 8 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• corruption:
    1. I. Physical: corruptio (e. g. corporis, i. e. disease, Cic.), pūtor, putrēdo: v. decomposition, rottenness, decay.
    2. II. Moral:
      1. 1. corruptio (rare): Cic. has opinionum corruptio.
      2. 2. corruptēla (prop. a means of corruption: hence often in pl.): the temptations of c., illecebrae corruptelarum, Sall.: a storehouse of every kind of c., corruptelarum omnis generis officina, Liv. 39, 10.
      3. 3. dēprāvātio: Join: d. et foeditas animi, Cic.
      4. 4. prāvĭtas: v. viciousness, depravity.
    3. III. In the use of words: dēprāvātio: Cic.: with ref. to MSS. corruptela is often used: some c., *vitiati aliquid.
    4. IV. By money: corruptēla (Cic.) largītio: ambĭtus: v. bribery: in the administration of a province, (res) repetundae: v. extortion.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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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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• CORRUPTION
  • Act of corrupting, or state of being corrupted, corruptio (rare: perhaps only Cic., Tusc., 4, 13, 28, totius corporis corruptio, as definition of morbus; and id. ib., 29, corruptione opinionum): depravatio (e.g., of mind). ☞ OBSERVE, corruptela is what contributes to the corruption of anything; or corruption as action, corruptela juventutis (genetive objective), Krebs.
  • State of decomposition, putor: putredo (the state of putrefaction).
  • In a moral sense, corruptio; depravatio; pravitas; turpitudo [SYN. in To CORRUPT]. Corruption of mind, depravatio et foeditas animi; of manners, mores corrupti depravatique: mores perditi: mores turpes: mores corruptela depravati (Cic., Legg., 2, 15; not corruptela morum).
  • Bribery, corruptela (with reference to the demoralization of the person bribed): largitio (with reference to the bribe itself): ambitus (with reference to the canvassing, e.g., for places under government).