The story
- Latin · derived fromscelerātus
- French · borrowed fromscélérat
- English todayscelerat
Borrowed from French scélérat, from Latin scelerātus, past participle of scelerāre (“to pollute, defile”), from scelus (“crime”).
Words from the same roots
Latinscelerātus all →
scelerate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.