severitas

Latin

Etymology

sevērus +‎ -tas

Noun

sevēritās f (genitive sevēritātis); third declension

  1. seriousness, gravity, sternness, strictness, severity
    Synonyms: crūdēlitās, feritās, ferōcitās, asperitās
    Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, lēnitās, eleēmosyna

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sevēritās sevēritātēs
Genitive sevēritātis sevēritātum
Dative sevēritātī sevēritātibus
Accusative sevēritātem sevēritātēs
Ablative sevēritāte sevēritātibus
Vocative sevēritās sevēritātēs

Descendants

References
  • “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • severitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • severitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to put on a stern air: vultum componere ad severitatem
    • to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum (severitatis) edere in aliquo (Q. Fr. 1. 2. 2. 5)
    • to show that one is serious: severitatem adhibere
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