noun · femininethird declension
prāvitās
prāvitās f (genitive prāvitātis)
Meaning
- crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity
- impropriety, perverseness
- viciousness, untowardness, depravity
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prāvitās | prāvitātēs |
| genitive | prāvitātis | prāvitātum |
| dative | prāvitātī | prāvitātibus |
| accusative | prāvitātem | prāvitātēs |
| ablative | prāvitāte | prāvitātibus |
| vocative | prāvitās | prāvitātēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- opinionum pravitate infici
- to be filled with absurd prejudices.
prāvĭtas, ātis, f. pravus,
I. crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity (class.).
I. Lit.:
pravitas membrorum, Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 29: corporis pravitates, id. Leg. 1, 19, 51: oris, a distorting of the mouth in speaking, id. de Or. 2, 22, 91; id. Fin. 5, 17, 47: statuminum, Col. 4, 20: curvaturae, Pall. 4, 11.—II. Trop., irregularity, impropriety, bad condition, perverseness:
quae ista est pravitas Quaeve amentia? Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 20: ne malā consuetudine ad aliquam deformitatem pravitatemque veniamus, impropriety in speaking, in gestures, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 136: ominis, a bad omen, Gell. 1, 22, 21: tortuosae orationis, id. 5, 20, 1.—B. In partic., of character, viciousness, untowardness, perverseness, depravity:
animi, perverseness, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 10, 40: mentis, Cic. Vatin. 6, 14: in istā pravitate perstabitis? id. Ac. 2, 8, 26: consilii, Tac. H. 3, 41: interitus pravitatis, Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 27; Tac. A. 14, 38: morum, id. H. 4, 44: cordis, Vulg. Deut. 29, 19 et saep.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
prāvitās ātis, f
pravus, crookedness, distortion, deformity : membrorum: corporis pravitates. —Fig., irregularity, impropriety : malā consuetudine ad aliquam pravitatem venire.—Of character, viciousness, untowardness, perverseness, depravity : quae ista est pravitas? T.: mentis: in istā pravitate perstabitis?: morum, Ta.: pravitates animi.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin prāvitās From prāvus + -tās.
In English words that came into English from prāvitās
- pravityprāvitās