turpitudo

From turpis (“ugly; base”) +‎ -tūdō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tʊr.pɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tur.piˈtuː.do]

turpitūdō f (genitive turpitūdinis); third declension

1. ugliness, unsightliness, foulness, deformity
2. baseness, indecency, shamefulness, disgrace, dishonor, infamy, turpitude
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.22:

     Neque enim is es, Catilīna, ut tē aut pudor umquam ā turpitūdine, aut metus ā perīculō, aut ratiō ā furōre, revocārit.

     For you are not the sort [of man], Catiline, either that shame has ever recalled you from infamy, or fear from danger, or reason from madness.

Third-declension noun.

• “turpitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “turpitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "turpitudo", 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)
• “turpitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to injure a man's character, tarnish his honour: notam turpitudinis alicui or vitae alicuius inurere