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vitium is a Latin Noun that primarily means fault.
Noun
fault, crime, vice
English derivatives:
vitiate vicious; but not vice in vice versa
Noun
A quality which impedes success, perfection, etc., defect, fault, shortcoming.
An imperfection (in material things), fault, flaw. (b) a defect, disorder (of the body, faculties, etc.). (c) to develop a fault or defect; sim. (d) unsound or defective form, substance, etc.
(in contexts expr. the effect of a fault on a person or thing) Disadvantage, injurious quality. (b) (abl.) through the fault or defect (of a person or thing).
Vitia tyrannōrum tolerāre nōn possumus.Compare We cannot tolerate the faults of tyrants.
Hic vir sōlus mē dē vitiīs huius tyrannī monēre poterat.Compare This man alone was able to warn me about the faults of this tyrant.
Remedium vitiōrum vestrōrum vidētur difficilius.Compare The cure of your vices seems rather (too) difficult.
Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter et urget propositum; pars multa natat, modo recte capessens, interdum pravis obnoxia.Compare A part of the world finds its pleasure consistently in vice and keeps steady to its purpose. Another and a larger part wavers, at one moment setting its hands to what is right, at another giving way to evil.
Ergo sollicitae tu causa, pecunia, vitae; per ter immaturum mortis adimus iter; tu vitiis hominum crudelis pabula praebes; semina curarum de capita orte tuo.Compare So it is you, money, the cause of a restless life. Because of you we embark toward early death; on you men's vices cruelly feed, you, the seed and fountainhead of all our cares.
Est enim hoc commune vitium in magnis liberisque civitatibus, ut invidia gloriae comes sit, et libenter de his detrahant, quos eminuere videant altius: neque animo aequo pauperes alienam opulentium intuentur fortunam.Compare It is a general failing in great and free states that envy should be a concomitant of distinction: people like to pull down those whom they see rising too high; nor do the poor look with equanimity on fortunes in which they have no share.
Tyrannī multa vitia semper habēbunt.Compare Tyrants will always have many faults.
Nominibus mollire licet mala, fusca vocetur nigrior Illyrica cui pice sanguis erit. Si Paeta est, Veneri similis. Si flava, Minervae, sit gracilis macie quae male viva sua est. dic habilem quaecumque brevis; quae turgida, plenam; et lateat vitium proximitate boni.Compare With names you soften shortcomings; let her be called swarthy whose blood is blacker than Illyrian pitch; if cross-eyed, she is like Venus; yellow haired, like Minerva; call her slender whose thinness impairs her health; if short, call her trim; if stout, of full body; let its nearness to a virtue conceal a fault.
Singular | Plural | |
Nom. | vitium | vitia |
Gen. | vitiī | vitiōrum |
Dat. | vitiō | vitiīs |
Acc. | vitium | vitia |
Abl. | vitiō | vitiīs |
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Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "vitium, vitiī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed October 3, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/vitium-vitii.
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