The story
- Latin · derived fromturpitūdō“baseness, infamy”
- Middle French · borrowed fromturpitude
- English todayturpitude
Borrowed from Middle French turpitude, from Latin turpitūdō (“baseness, infamy”), from turpis (“foul, base”).
Words from the same roots
Latinturpitūdō all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.