LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

sagācitās

sagācitās f (genitive sagācitātis)

Meaning

  1. keenness (of perception), acuteness (of the senses)
  2. sagacity, shrewdness

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativesagācitāssagācitātēs
genitivesagācitātissagācitātum
dativesagācitātīsagācitātibus
accusativesagācitātemsagācitātēs
ablativesagācitātesagācitātibus
vocativesagācitāssagācitātēs

săgācĭtas, ātis, f. sagax,
I. keenness of perception, acuteness of the senses, sagacity.
I. Lit.
A. Keenness of scent in dogs: canum tam incredibilis ad investigandum sagacitas narium, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158; so, canum, Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92.—*
2. Transf., of hunters: ut domitas feras mentita sagacitate colligerent, Plin. Pan. 81, 3.—*
B. Keenness, acuteness of the other senses: sensuum, Sen. Ep. 95, 58.—
II. Trop., intellectual keenness of perception, acuteness, shrewdness, sagacity (good prose; syn.: sollertia, acumen): utrum admonitus ac tentatus, an, quā est ipse sagacitate in his rebus, sine duce ullo, sine indice, pervenerit ad hanc improbitatem, nescio, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105: tuam tantam fuisse sagacitatem, id. ib. 2, 4, 12, § 29: erat eā sagacitate, ut decipi non posset, Nep. Alc. 5, 2: consilii, Val. Max. 7, 3, 3: Hipparchi sagacitate compertum est, lunae defectum, etc., Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 57.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin sagācitās From sagāx + -tās.

Descendants
  • Englishsagacity
  • Frenchsagacité
  • Italiansagacità

In English words that came into English from sagācitās

  • sagacitysagācitās

Quick answers

What does sagācitās mean in Latin?
sagācitās, a noun, means “keenness (of perception), acuteness (of the senses); sagacity, shrewdness”.
What is the genitive of sagācitās?
The genitive singular is sagācitātis. sagācitās is feminine, third declension.