Latin

Noun

asperitās f ‎(genitive asperitātis); third declension

1. unevenness, roughness
2. harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness
3. severity, fierceness, asperity

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• asper

Descendants

• French: aspérité

References

• asperitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asperitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ASPERITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “asperitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • rough climate: caeli asperitas