FORNICATION – LATIN
“Fornicatio” / “forn…” is the parallel word used in Jerome’s Latin Vulgate (c. 405 AD): The Catholic Bible
A Glossary of Later Latin: To 600 A.D., Souter, Oxford, 1957, p. 152:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?layout.reflang=la;layout.refembed=2;layout.refwordcount=1;layout.reflookup=fornicem;doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2318619, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “fornix”:
II. Transf., a brothel, bagnio, stew, situated in underground vaults, Hor. S. 1, 2, 30 sq.; id. Ep. 1, 14, 21; Juv. 3, 156; 11, 171.--Hence, transf., of one who gave himself up to prostitution: (Caesarem) Curio stabulum Nicomedis et Bithynicum fornicem dicit, Suet. Caes. 49 .
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?layout.reflang=la;layout.refembed=2;layout.refwordcount=1;layout.reflookup=fornicem;doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2318619, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “fornĭcārĭus”:
fornĭcārĭus , ii, m., and fornĭcārĭa , ae, f. [fornix, II.] ,
I. a fornicator; a prostitute, Tert. Anim. 35; id. Pudic. 9; 16; cf. Isid. Orig. 10, 110; Hier. Ep. 53, 8; Vulg. Isa. 57, 3 al.: fornicaria pornê apo kamaras, Vet. Gloss.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2318616, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “fornĭcātrix”:
fornĭcātrix , īcis, f. [fornicator] ,
I. a fornicatress, prostitute (late Lat.), Isid. Orig. 10, 110.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2318614, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, “fornĭcātĭo”:
fornĭcātĭo , ōnis, f. [fornicor] ,
I. whoredom, fornication (eccl. Lat.), Tert. Pudic. 1; 2; 16; 22; Vulg. Num. 14, 33 al.
Harpers’ Latin Dictionary, Lewis / Short, 1879, p. 770, “fornĭcātĭo”:
“fornĭcor | fornix”:
Oxford Latin Dictionary, Glare, 1982, p. 725, “fornix”:
“(spec.)” stands for “specifically.”
A Smaller Latin-English Dictionary, William Smith, 1879, p. 232, “fornix”:
Cassell’s Latin Dictionary, Simpson, 1968, p. 253 (Latin-English), “fornix”:
The Oxford Latin Minidictionary, Morwood, 1995, p. 109 (Latin-English), “forni…”:
Collins Latin Gem Dictionary, Kidd, 1957, p. 139 (Latin-English), “forni…”:
Langenscheidt’s Universal Latin Dictionary, Costa / Herberg, no date, p. 99 (Latin-English), “forn…”:
Langenscheidt’s Pocket Latin Dictionary, Handford / Herberg, 1966, p. 141 (Latin-English), “forni…”:
The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Traupman, 1966, p. 119 (Latin-English), “forni…”:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith / Anthon, 1870, p. 450, “fornix”:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jO8sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=fornix+brothel-house+%22abridgment+of+Leverett%27s+Latin+lexicon%22&source=bl&ots=Wi_5hCXNjG&sig=fekzXZgz13Thg1PmvLE4GEE0UqM&hl=en&ei=CchLTcKTDsP_lgfRmt0K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false, An Abridgment of Leverett's Latin Lexicon, particularly adapted to The Classics Usually Studies Preparatory to a Collegiate Course, Francis Gardner, 1840, p. 155, “FORNIX”:
