improperium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Latin properus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin properō

Latin improperō

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin improperium

From improperō (“to reproach, insult”) + -ium.

Noun

improperium n (genitive improperiī or improperī); second declension

1. taunt
2. reproach

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	improperium	improperia
genitive	improperiī improperī1	improperiōrum
dative	improperiō	improperiīs
accusative	improperium	improperia
ablative	improperiō	improperiīs
vocative	improperium	improperia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “improperium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "improperium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “improperium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.