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periurium

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Menander, Monostichoi, 67

Latin > English

periurium periuri(i) N N :: false oath, perjury

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

perjūrĭum: ii, n. periurus,
I a false oath, perjury.
I Lit. (class.): perjuri caput, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 129: fons viti et perjuri, id. Truc. 2, 7, 50: quod ex animi tui sententiā juraris, id non facere perjurium est, Cic. Off. 3, 29, 108: perjurii poena, id. Leg. 2, 9, 22: sceleratorum hominum perjuria, id. Font. 16, 35: Deum genitor fraudem et perjuria Cercopum exosus, Ov. M. 14, 91; id. F. 5, 681: perjuras merito perjuria fallunt, id. A. A. 1, 657: luimus perjuria Trojae, Verg. G. 1, 502; cf. id. A. 4, 542; Ov. H. 20, 185: perjuria dictare, Juv. 8, 82: vendere, id. 14, 218.—
II Transf., concr.: perjuria Graia (poet. for perjuri Graii), the perjured or perfidious Greeks, Sil. 17, 425.

Latin > German (Georges)

periūrium, iī, n. (periurus), der falsche Eid, der Meineid, Catull., Cic. u.a.: periurio se obstringere, Liv. – meton., Graia periuria, die treulose Schar der Griechen, Sil. 17, 425. – / Nbf. peiūrium, Plaut. rud. 17 u. 1099. Oros. 4, 5, 2 u. 5, 17, 13. Beda (VII) 229, 6.

Translations

perjury

Arabic: شَهَادَة زُور zūr); Belarusian: ілжэсведчанне, лжэсведчанне, клятвапарушэнне; Bulgarian: лъжесвидетелство; Catalan: perjuri; Chinese Mandarin: 偽證, 伪证, 偽證罪, 伪证罪; Czech: křivé svědectví; Danish: mened, falsk forklaring; Dutch: meineed; English: false testimony, oathbreach, perjury, testilying; Esperanto: ĵurrompo; Finnish: väärä vala, perätön lausuma; French: faux témoignage; Georgian: ცრუმოწმეობა; German: Meineid; Greek: ψευδορκία; Ancient Greek: ἐπιορκία, ψευδοκλητεία, ψευδομαρτυρία, ψευδορκία; Hungarian: hamis tanúzás; Icelandic: meinsæri; Irish: mionn bréige, mionn éithigh; Italian: falsa testimonianza; Japanese: 偽誓, 偽証, 偽証罪; Korean: 위증(僞證); Latin: periurium; Macedonian: кривоклетство; Maori: oati teka; Norwegian: falsk forklaring, mened; Old English: mānāþ; Polish: krzywoprzysięstwo; Portuguese: perjúrio; Romanian: mărturie mincinoasă; Russian: лжесвидетельство, клятвопреступление; Serbo-Croatian Roman: krivokletstvo, krivorečstvo; Spanish: perjurio; Swedish: mened; Tagalog: pagbubulaan, sambampanday; Turkish: yalancı şahitlik, yalancı tanıklık; Ukrainian: лжесві́дчення, кривосві́дчення