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pigritia

pigritia

Latin

Noun

pīgritia f ‎(genitive pīgritiae); first declension

sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pīgritia	pīgritiae
genitive	pīgritiae	pīgritiārum
dative	pīgritiae	pīgritiīs
accusative	pīgritiam	pīgritiās
ablative	pīgritiā	pīgritiīs
vocative	pīgritia	pīgritiae

Descendants

Catalan: peresa
French: paresse
Friulian: pegrece
Galician: preguiza
Italian: pigrezza, pigrizia
Occitan: peresa, pigresa

Old French: peresce
Old Portuguese: pegriça
Old Provençal: pereza
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
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pigritia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.