morositas

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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morōsus (peevish”, “wayward”, “capricious”, “difficult [to please]) +‎ -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mōrōsitās f (genitive mōrōsitātis); third declension

  1. peevishness, fretfulness, moroseness, gloom, ill-humor, moodiness, morosity
  2. niceness, pedantry, over-scrupulousness, too great nicety, captiousness, persnicketiness, over-refinement, purism
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

Descendants
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  • French: morosité

References

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Etymology 2

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morōsus (slow [in coming]”, “lingering) +‎ -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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morōsitās f (genitive morōsitātis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) procrastination
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

Synonyms
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References

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  • morositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • morositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • morositas 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)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “morositas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 705/2