severitas
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sevēritās f (genitive sevēritātis); third declension
- seriousness, gravity, sternness, strictness, severity
- Synonyms: crūdēlitās, feritās, ferōcitās, asperitās
- Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, lēnitās, eleēmosyna
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sevēritās | sevēritātēs |
| Genitive | sevēritātis | sevēritātum |
| Dative | sevēritātī | sevēritātibus |
| Accusative | sevēritātem | sevēritātēs |
| Ablative | sevēritāte | sevēritātibus |
| Vocative | sevēritās | sevēritātēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: severitat
- English: severity
- French: sévérité
- Galician: severidade
- Italian: severità
- Portuguese: severidade
- Sicilian: sivirità
- Spanish: severidad
References edit
- “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- severitas 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)
- severitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put on a stern air: vultum componere ad severitatem
- to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum (severitatis) edere in aliquo (Q. Fr. 1. 2. 2. 5)
- to show that one is serious: severitatem adhibere
- to put on a stern air: vultum componere ad severitatem