severitas

Latin

Etymology

sevērus +‎ -tas

Noun

sevēritās f (genitive sevēritātis); third declension

1. seriousness, gravity, sternness, strictness, severity

   Synonyms: crūdēlitās, feritās, ferōcitās, asperitās

   Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, lēnitās, eleēmosyna

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sevēritās	sevēritātēs
Genitive	sevēritātis	sevēritātum
Dative	sevēritātī	sevēritātibus
Accusative	sevēritātem	sevēritātēs
Ablative	sevēritāte	sevēritātibus
Vocative	sevēritās	sevēritātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: severitat
• English: severity
• French: sévérité
• Galician: severidade
• Italian: severità
• Portuguese: severidade
• Sicilian: sivirità
• Spanish: severidad

References

• “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “severitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• severitas 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)
• severitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put on a stern air: vultum componere ad severitatem
    
  • to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum (severitatis) edere in aliquo (Q. Fr. 1. 2. 2. 5)
    
  • to show that one is serious: severitatem adhibere