maestitia

Latin

Alternative forms

• moestitia, mestitia
• maestities, moestities

Etymology

From maestus (“sad, sorrowful”) +‎ -itia.

Noun

maestitia f (genitive maestitiae); first declension

1. sadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, melancholy

   Synonyms: maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, aegritūdō, dēsīderium

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	maestitia	maestitiae
genitive	maestitiae	maestitiārum
dative	maestitiae	maestitiīs
accusative	maestitiam	maestitiās
ablative	maestitiā	maestitiīs
vocative	maestitia	maestitiae

Related terms

• maestus

References

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