siccitas

Latin

siccitas

Etymology

From siccus (“dry”) +‎ -tās.

Noun

siccitās f (genitive siccitātis); third declension

1. dryness
2. drought

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	siccitās	siccitātēs
Genitive	siccitātis	siccitātum
Dative	siccitātī	siccitātibus
Accusative	siccitātem	siccitātēs
Ablative	siccitāte	siccitātibus
Vocative	siccitās	siccitātēs

Synonyms

• (dryness, drought): ariditas

Descendants

• Aromanian: seatsitã
• Franco-Provençal: setiá
• Ligurian: sesia
• Lombard: secea (medieval)
• Neapolitan: secceta
• Romanian: secetă
• Romansch: sedschda
• Sicilian: siccità
• → French: siccité
• → Italian: siccità
• → Portuguese: sicidade

See also

• Spanish: sequedad (later formation)

References

• “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• siccitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plain style: siccitas, sanitas orationis
    
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sĭccĭtas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 594
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĭccĭtas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 583