duritas

Latin

Etymology

From dūrus (“hard, harsh”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ri.taːs/, [ˈd̪uːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ri.tas/, [ˈd̪uːrit̪äs]

Noun

dūritās f (genitive dūritātis); third declension

1. harshness

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	dūritās
genitive	dūritātis
dative	dūritātī
accusative	dūritātem
ablative	dūritāte
vocative	dūritās

Derived terms

• Italian: durità

References

• “duritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “duritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Adjective

duritas

1. feminine plural of durito