English → Latin
“dwarfishness” in Latin
brevitāsshortness; narrowness; briefness, brevity, shortness; conciseness, terseness, brevityparvitāssmallness, littleness; unimportance, insignificanceexiguitāsscantiness; smallness, shortness; scarcity
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
dwarfishness
(staturae) brevitas (Caes., B.G., 2, 30): parvitas; exiguitas [SYN. in SMALL]: tantula statura.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for dwarfishness?
- The usual Latin words for “dwarfishness” are brevitās, parvitās, exiguitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.