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morositas
morositas
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /moːˈroː.si.taːs/, [moːˈroː.sɪ.taːs]
Noun
mōrōsitās f (genitive mōrōsitātis); third declension
- peevishness, fretfulness, moroseness, gloom, ill-humor, moodiness, morosity
- niceness, pedantry, over-scrupulousness, too great nicety, captiousness, persnicketiness, over-refinement, purism
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mōrōsitās | mōrōsitātēs |
| genitive | mōrōsitātis | mōrōsitātum |
| dative | mōrōsitātī | mōrōsitātibus |
| accusative | mōrōsitātem | mōrōsitātēs |
| ablative | mōrōsitāte | mōrōsitātibus |
| vocative | mōrōsitās | mōrōsitātēs |
Descendants
References
- mōrōsĭtas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mōrōsĭtās”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 995/3.
- “mōrōsitās” on page 1,135/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
morōsus (“slow [in coming]”, “lingering”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /moˈroː.si.taːs/, [mɔˈroː.sɪ.taːs]
Noun
morōsitās f (genitive morōsitātis); third declension
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | morōsitās | morōsitātēs |
| genitive | morōsitātis | morōsitātum |
| dative | morōsitātī | morōsitātibus |
| accusative | morōsitātem | morōsitātēs |
| ablative | morōsitāte | morōsitātibus |
| vocative | morōsitās | morōsitātēs |
Synonyms
- (procrastination): prōcrāstinātiō
References
- morositas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- morositas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- MOROSITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- “morositas” on page 705/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)