The corpus record — Latin

scelerosus

scelerosus · adj

full of wickedness

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Where it lives

Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

scĕlĕrōsus — Lewis & Short

scĕlĕrōsus, a, um, adj.scelus,

I full of wickedness, vicious, abominable, accursed (ante- and post-class.): ubi ego illum scelerosum et impium inveniam? Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 1: scelerosa et polluta mulier, App. M. 10, p. 253, 2: scelerosa atque impia facta, Lucr. 1, 82: o diem scelerosum et indignum, Afr. ap. Non. 174, 29.—As subst.: scĕlĕrōsus, i, m., a wicked or vicious person, a wretch, Lucil. ap. Non. 174, 27.

In the wild

scelerosum Terence, Eunuchus 4.3
scelerosae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.29
scelerosa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.83

Where it came from

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