rusticitas

Latin

Etymology

From rūsticus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

rūsticitās f (genitive rūsticitātis); third declension

  1. rusticity (country life and people)
  2. (Medieval Latin) uneducation, idiocy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rūsticitās rūsticitātēs
genitive rūsticitātis rūsticitātum
dative rūsticitātī rūsticitātibus
accusative rūsticitātem rūsticitātēs
ablative rūsticitāte rūsticitātibus
vocative rūsticitās rūsticitātēs

Descendants

  • French: rusticité (learned)
  • Italian: rusticità
  • Spanish: rusticidad

References

  • rusticitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rusticitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rusticitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • "idiota", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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