sufficientia

Latin

Etymology

From sufficiens.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /suf.fi.kiˈen.ti.a/, [s̠ʊfːɪkiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suf.fi.t͡ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [sufːit͡ʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

sufficientia f (genitive sufficientiae); first declension

1. sufficience, sufficiency

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sufficientia	sufficientiae
genitive	sufficientiae	sufficientiārum
dative	sufficientiae	sufficientiīs
accusative	sufficientiam	sufficientiās
ablative	sufficientiā	sufficientiīs
vocative	sufficientia	sufficientiae

Descendants

• Catalan: suficiència
• English: sufficience, sufficiency
• French: suffisance
• Galician: suficiencia
• Italian: sufficienza
• Portuguese: suficiência
• Romanian: suficiență
• Spanish: suficiencia

References

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