asperitas

See also: Asperitas

English

Asperitas clouds over Tallinn

Etymology

From Latin asperitās, replacing the older undulatus asperatus. Doublet of asperity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æsˈpɛɹɪtas/, /æsˈpɛɹɪtæs/
• Hyphenation: as‧pe‧ri‧tas

Noun

asperitas (plural asperitates or asperitases or asperitas)

1. A cloud formation characterized by wavy undulations in the cloud base.

Anagrams

• aspirates, parasites, pastieras, satrapies

Latin

Etymology

asper +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /asˈpe.ri.taːs/, [äs̠ˈpɛrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈpe.ri.tas/, [äsˈpɛːrit̪äs]

Noun

asperitās f (genitive asperitātis); third declension

1. unevenness, roughness
2. harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness

   Antonym: lēnitās

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.87–88:

     dēnsāque cēdit frīgoris asperitās

     and [in April] the oppressive harshness of the cold gives way
     (In this context ‘‘asperitās’’ may be understood with several of the different meanings listed here.)

3. severity, fierceness, asperity

   Synonyms: ferōcitās, crūdēlitās, feritās, sevēritās

   Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, eleēmosyna, lēnitās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asperitās	asperitātēs
Genitive	asperitātis	asperitātum
Dative	asperitātī	asperitātibus
Accusative	asperitātem	asperitātēs
Ablative	asperitāte	asperitātibus
Vocative	asperitās	asperitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: asperitat
• English: asperitas
• French: aspérité
• Galician: asperidade
• Italian: asperità
• Occitan: asperitat
• Portuguese: asperidade
• Romanian: asperitate
• Spanish: asperidad

References

• “asperitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asperitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asperitas 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)
• asperitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • rough climate: caeli asperitas