Latin

Noun

vitium n ‎(genitive vitiī); second declension

1. crime
2. vice
3. fault, defect, blemish, error

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• vitiōsus

Descendants

References

• vitium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VITIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vitium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a mistake, solecism: vitium orationis, sermonis or simply vitium
    
  • to be indulgent to a person's faults: indulgere vitiis alicuius
    
  • to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse)
    
  • his vices betray themselves: vitia erumpunt (in aliquem) (De Amic. 21. 76)
    
  • to abandon oneself to vice: animum vitiis dedere
    
  • to be tainted with vice: vitiis, sceleribus contaminari or se contaminare (Off. 3. 8. 37)
    
  • to be vicious, criminal: vitiis, sceleribus inquinatum, contaminatum, obrutum esse
    
  • to eradicate vice: vitia exstirpare et funditus tollere
    
  • a life defiled by every crime: vita omnibus flagitiis, vitiis dedita
    
  • to have a natural propensity to vice: natura proclivem esse ad vitia
    
  • (ambiguous) the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit
    
  • (ambiguous) to be free from faults: omni vitio carere
    
  • (ambiguous) magistrates elected irregularly (i.e. either when the auspices have been unfavourable or when some formality has been neglected): magistratus vitio creati
    
  • (ambiguous) to reproach, blame a person for..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vitio vertere (Verr. 5. 50)