rusticitas

Latin

Etymology

From rūsticus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ruːsˈti.ki.taːs/, [ruːs̠ˈt̪ɪkɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /rusˈti.t͡ʃi.tas/, [rusˈt̪iːt͡ʃit̪äs]

Noun

rūsticitās f (genitive rūsticitātis); third declension

1. rusticity (country life and people)
2. (Medieval Latin) uneducation, idiocy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rūsticitās	rūsticitātēs
Genitive	rūsticitātis	rūsticitātum
Dative	rūsticitātī	rūsticitātibus
Accusative	rūsticitātem	rūsticitātēs
Ablative	rūsticitāte	rūsticitātibus
Vocative	rūsticitās	rūsticitātēs

Descendants

• Italian: rusticità
• Spanish: rusticidad

References

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

Further reading

• rusticitas 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)
  rustica 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)