Pecco, peccas, peccâre. Quint. To sinne, or offende: to faile inany thing: to doe amisse: to commit a fault: to fault.Dupliciter peccare. Quint. To offend two wayes.Largiter peccare.Plaut.Impiudeus culpa peccaui mea, Vide IMPRVDENS.Citra scelus peccaui.Ouid. Peccare in re aliqua. Cic.In matrona peccare. Horat. To commit aduoutrie with a maried woman.In eam partem potius peccant, quæ est cautior.Cicer.They offend rather in that part, &c.Si quid in peccaui. Cic.Peccare in adulteria. Sen. To offend in adnouteie often.In publica commoda peccare. Horat. To do against common commoditie.Si vnam peceauisses syllabam.Plaut.If thou hadst fayled in one sillable.Non multa peccas.Cic.Thou offendest not in many things.Magna peccare.Tacit.To commit great offences.Adultero peccare. Horat. To offend with an aduouterer.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pecco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [often referred to Sanscr. pāpa, pāpaka, wicked; but better to root pik-, to be angry; cf.: piget, pigeo, and Fick, Vergl. Wört. 632], to miss or mistake any thing; to do amiss, to transgress, to commit a fault, to offend, sin: peccare est tamquam transilire lineas, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20: alius magis alio vel peccat vel recte facit, id. Fin. 3, 14, 48; id. Or. 47, 157: peccare largiter,
to make a great mistake
, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 8; id. Ep. 3, 4, 53.—With acc.: si unam peccavisses syllabam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 29: aliquid, to offend in any respect: plura in aliquā re, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 44: Empedocles multa alia peccat, Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 29: eadem fere, id. ib. 1, 12, 31: talia peccandi jam mihi finis erit, Ov. P. 3, 7, 10.—With in and acc.: si quid in te peccavi ... in me ipsum peccavi vehementius, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: in rem publicam, id. ib. 7, 1, 3 (al. in re publicā).—With erga aliquem, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 62.—In aliquo or in aliquā re: quod in eo (Valerio) peccandi Germanis causa non esset, Caes. B. G. 1, 47: in servo necando semel peccatur, Cic. Par. 3, 2, 25: in hoc eodem peccat Hieronymus, id. Fin. 2, 10, 32: non modo in vitā sed saepissime et in poëmatis et in oratione peccatur, id. Or. 21, 70.—With abl. alone: et pecuniā et mollibus consultis, Tac. A. 1, 40: libidine, Juv. 6, 135.—With dat. of person (late Lat.): Domino, Vulg. Deut. 1, 41; id. 2 Reg. 12, 13.—De aliquă re, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 13.—B. In partic., of sexual sin: quid inter-Est in matronā, ancillā, peccesve togatā?Hor. S. 1, 2, 63; Ov. H. 16, 295; Mart. 1, 35, 2.—II.Transf., of animals and inanim. things, to fail, miscarry: ne Peccet (equus) ad extremum ridendus, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 9: unus de toto peccaverat orbe comarum Anulus, Mart. 2, 66, 1: si senseris vina peccatura, Pall. 11, 14.—Hence, peccans, antis, P. a., sinful, full of sin: unus dies bene actus peccanti immortalitati anteponendus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 2, 5.— Comp.: peccantius,
more faulty
,
worse
, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 8, 88.—B. As subst.: peccans, antis, comm., an offender, sinner: non prodest latere peccantibus. Sen. Ep. 97, 13: peccantium poena, id. ib. 97, 14: ad officium peccantes redire cogeret, Nep. Ages. 5, 3.—Adv.: peccanter, wrongly, incorrectly, falsely, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 40: definire aliquid, id. ib. 3, 1, 5.