surditas

Latin

Etymology

surdus (“deaf”) +‎ -tās

Noun

surditās f (genitive surditātis); third declension

1. deafness
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:

     Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.

     As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	surditās	surditātēs
genitive	surditātis	surditātum
dative	surditātī	surditātibus
accusative	surditātem	surditātēs
ablative	surditāte	surditātibus
vocative	surditās	surditātēs

Descendants

• French: surdité
• Italian: sordità
• Spanish: sordedad

References

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