different between opprobrium vs scurrility

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium (“reproach, disgrace”), first attested [1656], from opprobr? (“reproach, taunt”), from ob (“against”) + probrum (“disgrace, dishonor”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?o?b?i.?m/

Noun

opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)

1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.

   Synonym: obloquy

2. Scornful reproach or contempt.

   Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel; see also Thesaurus:contempt

3. A cause of shame or disgrace.

   Synonym: curse

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:opprobrium.

Related terms

• opprobrious

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• obprobrium

Etymology

From opprobr? +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p??b?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /op?pro.bri.um/, [?p?p???b?ium]

Noun

opprobrium n (genitive opprobri? or opprobr?); second declension

1. reproach, taunt
2. scandal, disgrace, dishonour, shame

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Derived terms

• opprobri?sus

Descendants

• Catalan: oprobi
• ? English: opprobrium
• French: opprobre
• Portuguese: opróbrio
• Spanish: oprobio, oprobrio

References

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

English

Etymology

scurril(ous) +? -ity, from Latin scurrilitas.

Noun

scurrility (countable and uncountable, plural scurrilities)

1. Something that is scurrilous.