Latin edit

Etymology edit

From rūsticus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rūsticitās f (genitive rūsticitātis); third declension

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

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rūsticitās rūsticitātēs
Genitive rūsticitātis rūsticitātum
Dative rūsticitātī rūsticitātibus
Accusative rūsticitātem rūsticitātēs
Ablative rūsticitāte rūsticitātibus
Vocative rūsticitās rūsticitātēs

Descendants edit

  • Italian: rusticità
  • Spanish: rusticidad

References edit

  • 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)

Further reading edit