assiduitas

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsiduitās

Etymology

From assiduus (“ever-present, diligent”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /as.siˈdu.i.taːs/, [äs̠ːɪˈd̪uɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as.siˈdu.i.tas/, [äsːiˈd̪uːit̪äs]

Noun

assiduitās f (genitive assiduitātis); third declension

1. constant presence with someone
2. continuance, duration, constancy of something
3. frequency or repetition of something

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	assiduitās	assiduitātēs
genitive	assiduitātis	assiduitātum
dative	assiduitātī	assiduitātibus
accusative	assiduitātem	assiduitātēs
ablative	assiduitāte	assiduitātibus
vocative	assiduitās	assiduitātēs

Related terms

• assideō
• assiduē
• assiduus

Descendants

• Catalan: assiduïtat
• French: assiduité
• Galician: asiduidade
• Italian: assiduità
• Portuguese: assiduidade
• Romanian: asiduitate
• Spanish: asiduidad

References

• “assiduitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assiduitas 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)
• assiduitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.