Latin

Noun

reverentia f ‎(genitive reverentiae); first declension

1. timidity, shyness (due to respect)
2. awe, reverence

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• French: révérence

References

• reverentia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reverentia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• REVERENTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “reverentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.