scandalum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”).

Noun

scandalum n (genitive scandalī); second declension

1. scandal (in the moral sense)
2. temptation (to sin)
3. stumbling block
4. trap

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scandalum	scandala
Genitive	scandalī	scandalōrum
Dative	scandalō	scandalīs
Accusative	scandalum	scandala
Ablative	scandalō	scandalīs
Vocative	scandalum	scandala

Related terms

• scandalizō

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: escàndol
• → French: scandale
  • → Belarusian: сканда́л (skandál)
  • → Bulgarian: сканда́л (skandál)
  • → Czech: skandál
  • → Danish: skandale
  • → Dutch: schandaal
    • → Indonesian: skandal
  • → English: scandal
    • → Japanese: スキャンダル (sukyandaru)
    • → Korean: 스캔들 (seukaendeul)
  • → Esperanto: skandalo
  • → Estonian: skandaal
  • → Finnish: skandaali
  • → German: Skandal
  • → Persian: اسکاندال (eskândâl)
  • → Polish: skandal
  • → Russian: сканда́л (skandál)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: skandal
  • → Slovak: škandál
  • → Swedish: skandal
  • → Turkish: skandal
  • → Ukrainian: сканда́л (skandál)
• → Galician: escándalo
• Italian: scandalo
• → Norman: escandale
• Old French: esclandre
  • → Middle English: slandre
    • English: slander
  • French: esclandre
    • → English: esclandre
  • Norman: esclandre
• → Portuguese: escândalo
• Romanian: scandal
• Sicilian: scànnalu
• Spanish: escándalo
• Vulgar Latin: *scandulum
  • → Albanian: shkandull

References

• “scandalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scandalum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scandalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.