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===Ingenui===
===Ingenui===
'''''Ingenui''''' or '''''ingenuitas''''' (singular ''ingenuus''), was a legal term of [[ancient Rome]] indicating those [[wikt:freeman|freemen]] who were born free, as distinct from, for example, freedmen, who were freemen who had once been slaves.<ref name="DGRA">{{Cite book  | last = Long  | first = George  | author-link = George Long (scholar)  | contribution = Ingenui  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities]] | volume =  | pages = 637  | publisher = [[Little, Brown and Company]] | place = Boston  | year = 1870  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0644.html  | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref>
'''''Ingenui''''' or '''''ingenuitas''''' (singular ''ingenuus''), was a legal term of [[ancient Rome]] indicating those [[wikt:freeman|freemen]] who were born free, as distinct from, for example, freedmen, who were freemen who had once been slaves.<ref name="DGRA">{{Cite book  | last = Long  | first = George  | author = George Long (scholar)  | contribution = Ingenui  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities  | volume =  | pages = 637  | publisher = Little, Brown and Company  | place = Boston  | year = 1870  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0644.html  | postscript = <!--None--> }}</ref>
===STUPRUM===
===STUPRUM===
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Ingenui

Ingenui or ingenuitas (singular ingenuus), was a legal term of ancient Rome indicating those freemen who were born free, as distinct from, for example, freedmen, who were freemen who had once been slaves.[1]

STUPRUM

1 Roman & civil law : sexual intercourse between a man and an unmarried woman other than one in slavery or concubinage

2 Roman & civil law : illicit intercourse contrary to morality

3 Roman & civil law : unchastity of a woman[2]

References

  1. Long, George (1870). "Ingenui". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 637 
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stuprum