peccadillo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small, relatively unimportant offense or sin

   His occasional tardiness was a minor peccadillo at most.

Simplified etymology

Peccadillo literally means “little sin.” It was borrowed in the late 16th century, in several early spellings, from Spanish peccadillo and Italian peccadiglio; both derive from Latin peccatum, “error, sin,” from peccare, “to make a mistake, sin.”

Borrowed from Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado ('sin'), from Latin peccatum ('sin'), from peccare ('to sin, err').

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