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"Naturalia non sunt turpia"


"And now to consider one matter of special importance in the book—its turpiloquium."--Translator's foreword to 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night' by Richard Francis Burton

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Turpis:

  1. ugly, unsightly; foul, filthy
  2. cacophonous, disagreeable
  3. base, infamous, scandalous, dishonorable, shameful, disgraceful

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”). See torqueō.

Turpitude

  1. Inherent baseness or depravity; corruptness and evilness.
    The delinquent juvenile was guilty of moral turpitude.
  2. An act evident of such a depravity.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitūdō (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).

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