different between turpitude vs opprobrium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpit?d? (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).

Noun

turpitude (countable and uncountable, plural turpitudes)

1. Inherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
2. An act evident of such a depravity.

Derived terms

• moral turpitude

Related terms

• turpid
• turpidly
• turpitudinous

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turpit?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?.pi.tyd/

Noun

turpitude f (plural turpitudes)

1. turpitude (depravity, wickedness)
2. turpitude (depraved or wicked act)

Further reading

• “turpitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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