stultitia

Latin

Etymology

From stultus (stupid, foolish) + -itia (-ness, -ity).

Pronunciation

Noun

stultitia f (genitive stultitiae); first declension

  1. Folly, stupidity, foolishness, simplicity, silliness, fatuity.
    Synonyms: īnsapientia, imprūdentia, stupiditās, sōcordia, ignōrantia, ineptitūdō, inertia
    Antonyms: sapientia, prūdentia, scientia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stultitia stultitiae
Genitive stultitiae stultitiārum
Dative stultitiae stultitiīs
Accusative stultitiam stultitiās
Ablative stultitiā stultitiīs
Vocative stultitia stultitiae

Descendants

  • Spanish: estulticia

References

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