simplicitas

Latin

simplicitās f (genitive simplicitātis); third declension

simplicity
plainness, frankness, openness
innocence, honesty, candor, integrity
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.28.6:
  Melior est pauper ambulāns in simplicitāte, suā quam dīves prāvīs itineribus.
  Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.
  (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
directness, ingenuousness, naturalness

Third-declension noun.

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

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