SCELESTA, scelesta
Sounds Like: skeh-LES-tah
Translations: wicked, impious, criminal, evil, a wicked one, an impious one
From the root: SCELESTUS
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as wicked, impious, or criminal. It is used to characterize actions, people, or things that are morally corrupt or associated with crime. For example, it could describe a wicked deed or a criminal person.
Inflection: Feminine, Singular, Nominative or Vocative; or Neuter, Plural, Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, SCELESTUS.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- SCELESTUS — wicked, impious, accursed, criminal, villainous, nefarious, depraved, a wicked person, an impious person
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