scelus.
crime; calamity; wickedness, sin, evil deed;
Meaning & usage
an evil deed; a wicked, heinous, or impious action
Cui prōdest scelus, is fēcit
wickedness, villainy
criminal, villain, felon, scoundrel, rascal, rogue
Where this word comes from
Disputed. De Vaan derives the term from Proto-Italic *skelos, from Proto-Indo-European *skel-os ~ *skel-es-os n (“curve, bending”), from *skel- (“to curve, bend”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *skelhaz (whence Dutch scheel, German scheel), Ancient Greek σκέλος (skélos), σκολιός (skoliós). Schrijver, however, adduces Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, “to fail, be wanting, err”) and Sanskrit स्खलति (skhalati, “to stumble”) as cognates, both of which are otherwise derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (“to stumble, misstep”). According to this theory, the root would be reconstructed as *(s)kh₁el-, which would explain the lack of the development *ke- to *ka- that is otherwise supported by Schrijver.
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