pigritia

Latin

Etymology

From piger +‎ -itia.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /piˈɡri.ti.a/, [pɪˈɡrɪt̪iä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈɡrit.t͡si.a/, [piˈɡrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

pigritia f (genitive pigritiae); first declension

sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence
Synonyms: sēgnitia, inertia, ignāvia, dēsidia, sōcordia, ōtium

Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pigritia	pigritiae
Genitive	pigritiae	pigritiārum
Dative	pigritiae	pigritiīs
Accusative	pigritiam	pigritiās
Ablative	pigritiā	pigritiīs
Vocative	pigritia	pigritiae

Descendants

Friulian: pegrece
Italian: pigrezza, pigrizia
Old French: peresce
- French: paresse
Old Occitan: pereza
- Catalan: peresa, perea
- Occitan: peresa, → pigresa
Old Galician-Portuguese: pegriça
- Galician: preguiza
- Portuguese: preguiça
Spanish: pereza, → pigricia

References

“pigritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pigritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pigritia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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