surditas

Latin

Etymology

surdus (“deaf”) +‎ -tās

Noun

surditās f (genitive surditātis); third declension

  1. deafness
    • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
      Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
      As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative surditās surditātēs
Genitive surditātis surditātum
Dative surditātī surditātibus
Accusative surditātem surditātēs
Ablative surditāte surditātibus
Vocative surditās surditātēs

Descendants
  • French: surdité
  • Italian: sordità
  • Spanish: sordedad

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