corruptela

From corrumpō (“corrupt”) +‎ -ēla.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔr.rʊpˈteː.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kor.rupˈtɛː.la]

corruptēla f (genitive corruptēlae); first declension

1. seduction, corruption, bribery
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.13:

     Cui tū adulēscentulō, quem corruptēlārum illecebrīs irretīssēs, nōn aut ad audāciam ferrum aut ad libīdinem facem praetulistī?

     To what young man, whom you had entangled with the allurements of corruption, did you not hold out either a sword for recklessness or a torch for lust?

First-declension noun.

• “corruptela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corruptela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “corruptela”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• corrutela (Brazil, rare)

Learned borrowing from Latin corruptēla (“corruption”).

• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Hyphenation: cor‧rup‧te‧la

corruptela f (plural corruptelas)

1. anything that corrupts
2. the result of corruption
3. (linguistics) corruption (debased or nonstandard form of a word)
4. (Brazil) small miner village on the edge of virgin lands

• “corruptela”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “corruptela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin corruptēla (“corruption”).

• IPA^(key): /korubˈtela/ [ko.ruβ̞ˈt̪e.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: co‧rrup‧te‧la

corruptela f (plural corruptelas)

1. corruption

• “corruptela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “corruptela” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.