lascivia

See also: lascívia

Italian

Noun

lascivia f (plural lascivie)

1. lasciviousness

Related terms

• lascivo

Anagrams

• lasciavi, lisciava, scialavi, scialiva

Latin

Etymology

From lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lasˈkiː.u̯i.a/, [ɫ̪äs̠ˈkiːu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laʃˈʃi.vi.a/, [läʃˈʃiːviä]

Noun

lascīvia f (genitive lascīviae); first declension

1. wantonness, jollity

   Synonyms: voluptās, gaudium, dēlectātiō, laetitia, alacritās

   Antonyms: lūctus, dēsīderium, maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, maeror

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lascīvia	lascīviae
Genitive	lascīviae	lascīviārum
Dative	lascīviae	lascīviīs
Accusative	lascīviam	lascīviās
Ablative	lascīviā	lascīviīs
Vocative	lascīvia	lascīviae

Descendants

• Catalan: lascívia

References

• “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lascivia 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)
• lascivia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lascivious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lascīvia, from lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /lasˈθibja/ [lasˈθi.β̞ja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /laˈsibja/ [laˈsi.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: las‧ci‧via

Noun

lascivia f (plural lascivias)

1. lasciviousness
2. (dated) immoderate appetite, longing

Related terms

• lascivo

 

Further reading

• “lascivia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16