pigritia

Latin

Etymology

From piger +‎ -itia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piˈɡri.ti.a/, [pɪˈɡrɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈɡrit.t͡si.a/, [piˈɡrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

pigritia f (genitive pigritiae); first declension

1. sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence

   Synonyms: sēgnitia, inertia, ignāvia, dēsidia, sōcordia, ōtium

   Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pigritia	pigritiae
Genitive	pigritiae	pigritiārum
Dative	pigritiae	pigritiīs
Accusative	pigritiam	pigritiās
Ablative	pigritiā	pigritiīs
Vocative	pigritia	pigritiae

Descendants

• Friulian: pegrece
• Italian: pigrezza, pigrizia
• Old French: peresce
  • French: paresse
• Old Occitan: pereza
  • Catalan: peresa, perea
  • Occitan: peresa, → pigresa
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pegriça
  • Galician: preguiza
  • Portuguese: preguiça
• Spanish: pereza, → pigricia

References

• “pigritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pigritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pigritia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.