rusticitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁os

Proto-Italic *rowos

Old Latin *rowos, *rowezos

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Old Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Old Latin -icus

Old Latin -ticus

Old Latin *rowestikos

Latin rūsticus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin rūsticitās

From rūsticus + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ruːsˈtɪ.kɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [rusˈtiː.t͡ʃi.tas]

Noun

rūsticitās f (genitive rūsticitātis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rūsticitās	rūsticitātēs
genitive	rūsticitātis	rūsticitātum
dative	rūsticitātī	rūsticitātibus
accusative	rūsticitātem	rūsticitātēs
ablative	rūsticitāte	rūsticitātibus
vocative	rūsticitās	rūsticitātēs

Descendants

• → French: rusticité (learned)
• 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, 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, 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)