scelus – Latin noun declension

Noun: scelus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	scelus
Plural	scelera

Genitive

Singular	sceleris
Plural	scelerum

Dative

Singular	scelerī
Plural	sceleribus

Accusative

Singular	scelus
Plural	scelera

Ablative

Singular	scelere
Plural	sceleribus

Vocative

Singular	scelus
Plural	scelera

Sample Sentences

Cui prōdest scelus, is fēcit (He who benefits from the crime, commits it.)
“[...] et scelus expendisse merentem
Lāocoönta ferunt, sacrum quī cuspide rōbur
laeserit, et tergō scelerātam intorserit hastam.”
“… and the evil deed merited punishment [for] Laocoön, they said, since he had violated the sacred wood [of the horse] with [his] spearhead [when he] hurled the profane weapon at [its] body.” [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.229–231]
rēgia rēs scelus est. socerō cape rēgna necātō
et nostrās patriō sanguine tinge manūs.
“Villainy is a deed worthy for kings. With [your] father-in-law having been killed, seize [his] kingdom, and stain [both] our hands with [my] father’s blood!”
(Tullia Minor goads her husband, Lucius Tarquinius, to murder her father, King Servius Tullius. The ablative absolute “socerō necātō” could be translated as “when [you] have killed [your] father-in-law,” or perhaps understood as an imperative: “Kill [your] father-in-law.”) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.595–596]
CHARĪNUS: Hem?! Quid ais, scelus?! At tibi Dī dignum factīs exitium duint! (CHARINUS: What?! What’s that you say, villain?! Yet may the Gods grant you an end appropriate to your deeds!) [166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 665–666]

Nouns inflected like scelus

scelus, vīscus, subgenus, quadrilatus, genus, latus, holus, fūnus, mūnus, ulcus, sīdus, rūdus, foedus, glomus, pondus, vulnus, vellus, volnus, onus, olus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Disputed. De Vaan derives the term from Proto-Italic *skelos, from Proto-Indo-European *skel-os ~ *skel-es-os n (“curve, bending”), from *skel- (“to curve, bend”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *skelhaz (whence Dutch scheel, German scheel), Ancient Greek σκέλος (skélos), σκολιός (skoliós). Schrijver, however, adduces Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, “to fail, be wanting, err”) and Sanskrit स्खलति (skhalati, “to stumble”) as cognates, both of which are otherwise derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble, misstep”). According to this theory, the root would be reconstructed as *(s)kh₁el-, which would explain the lack of the development *ke- to *ka- that is otherwise supported by Schrijver. See: Dutch Nouns 'scheel', Ancient Greek Nouns 'σκέλος'.