lascivitas
Latin
Noun
lascīvitās f (genitive lascīvitātis); third declension
- lascivity, lasciviousness, wantonness
- c. 1292–1298, Jacobus de Voragine, Chronica civitatis Ianuensis [Chronicles of the City of Genoa], archived from the original on 2023-09-03, page 166:
- nōn dēbent igitur cīvēs et lascīvitātibus subicī, sed in rēbus virtuōsīs et bellicīs exercitārī.
- And citizens, therefore, ought not be put under the control of lascivities, but be practised in virtuous and military affairs.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
References
- “lascivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lascivitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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