ădultĕrĭum (noun N) : adulter.
* Adultery: Adulterium est cum aliena uxore coire,Quint. 7, 3, 10: qui in adulterio deprehenditur,Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 275: mulierem in adulterio deprehensam,Vulg. Joan. 8, 3: cum aliqua facere,Cat. 67, 36: inire,Vell. 2, 45: adulteria exercere,Suet. Aug. 69: adulterio cognoscere alicujus uxorem,Just. 22, 1: vasa adulteriis caelata,decorated with immodest figures,Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140.—Of brutes: nec (elephanti) adulteria novere,Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13; id. 10, 34, 52, § 104.—Of plants, an ingrafling, inoculating, Manil. 5, 266.
* Adulteration: omnia in adulterium mellis excogitata,Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80: mercis,id. 19, 3, 15, § 44.

s. TLL