noun · femininethird declension
perduelliō
perduelliō f (genitive perduelliōnis)
Meaning
- treason
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | perduelliō | perduelliōnēs |
| genitive | perduelliōnis | perduelliōnum |
| dative | perduelliōnī | perduelliōnibus |
| accusative | perduelliōnem | perduelliōnēs |
| ablative | perduelliōne | perduelliōnibus |
| vocative | perduelliō | perduelliōnēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- accusare aliquem perduellionis
- to charge a person with treason (hostile conduct against the state generally).
perdŭellĭo, ōnis, f. perduellis.
I. Hostile conduct against one's country, treason, whether consisting of an attempt against the state, its institutions, and chief ruler, or of union with a foreign enemy, desertion, etc. (class.):
qui perduellionis reus est, hostili animo adversus rempublicam vel principem animatus est, Dig. 48, 4, 11; Cic. Pis. 2, 4: (Clodius) actionem perduellionis intenderat (for causing the execution of the Catilinarians who were Roman citizens), id. Mil. 14, 36: perduellionis judicium, id. Rab. Perd. 3, 10: tum Sempronius, perduellionis se judicare Cn. Fulvio dixit, that he accused Fulvius of high-treason (for allowing himself to be defeated), Liv. 26, 3: duumviros, qui Horatio perduellionem judicent, secundum legem facio (for killing his sister, which was regarded as a usurpation of the prerogative of punishment, and hence as a crime against the state), Liv. 1, 26: diem perduellionis alicui dicere, Suet. Caes. 12; cf. Liv. 43, 16; Val. Max. 6, 5, 3.—*II. Transf., concr., a (foreign) enemy of one's country, a public enemy; for the usual hostis (censured as a bombastic expression), Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15; cf. Amm. 21, 16, 10.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
perduelliō ōnis, f
perduellis, open hostility, hostility to one's country, high-treason : perduellionis reus: perduellionis se iudicare Cn. Fulvio dixit, declared Fulvius guilty of high-treason , L.: tibi perduellionem iudico, L.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin perduelliō From perduellis (“enemy”) + -iō.
In English words that came into English from perduelliō
- perduellionperduelliō