Latin

Noun

saevitia f ‎(genitive saevitiae); first declension

1. A raging; rage, ferocity, fierceness, fury.
2. Violence, savageness, savagery, cruelty, severity.

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (ferocity; violence): saevitūdō

Related terms

Descendants

• French: sévices
• Italian: sevizia
• Spanish: sevicia

References

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