The corpus record — Latin

scandalum

scandalum · n

that which causes one to stumble

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Where it lives

De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 6 · 1.3/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Adversus Marcionem 6 · 0.72/10k
Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

scandălum — Lewis & Short

scandălum, i, n., = ska/ndalon,

I that which causes one to stumble, a stumblingblock (eccl. Lat.). *

I Lit., Prud. Apoth. 47 praef.—

II Trop., an inducement to sin, a temptation, cause of offence, Tert. Virg. Vel. 3; id. adv. Jud. 14; id. adv. Marc. 3, 1; Vulg. Psa. 118, 165; id. 1 Johan. 2, 10.

In the wild

scandala Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 13.2
scandalum Prudentius, Apotheosis 2.35
scandalum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.18
scandalum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.5.p13
scandalum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.19
scandalum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.25.p4

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scandalum (scan p. 623; entry #10254).

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