LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

siccitās

siccitās f (genitive siccitātis)

Meaning

  1. dryness
  2. drought

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Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativesiccitāssiccitātēs
genitivesiccitātissiccitātum
dativesiccitātīsiccitātibus
accusativesiccitātemsiccitātēs
ablativesiccitātesiccitātibus
vocativesiccitāssiccitātēs

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

siccitas, sanitas orationis
the plain style.

siccĭtas, ātis (
I. gen. plur. siccitatium, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 222), f. siccus, dryness, siccity (freq. and class.; used alike in sing. and plur.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: ab lippitudine usque siccitas ut sit tibi, * Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 18: uvae, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 315: palmarum, id. 13, 4, 9, § 47.—
B. In partic.
1. Of places, dryness: in Sipontinā siccitate, Cic. Agr. 2, 27, 71: siccitates paludum, Caes. B. G. 4, 38.—
2. Of the weather, dryness, drought: siccitate et inopiā frugum insignis annus fuit: sex menses numquam pluisse, memoriae proditum est, Liv. 40, 29; cf. id. 4, 30; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 1; Plin. 31, 4, 28, § 51.—Plur.: frumentum in Galliā propter siccitates angustius provenerat, Caes. B. G. 5, 24; Varr. R. R. 1, 31 fin.: in siccitatibus acutae febres oriuntur, Cels. 2, 1 med.; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Col. 12, 44, 8; Plin. 10, 65, 85, § 186; 31, 4, 28, § 50. —
3. Of the human body, dryness, siccity, as a state of health; freedom from gross humors (opp. rheum, catarrh, tumefaction, etc.), firmness, solidity: Persae eam sunt consecuti corporis siccitatem, ut neque spuerent neque emungerentur suffiatoque corpore essent, Varr. ap. Non. 395, 7: adde siccitatem, quae consequitur hanc continentiam in victu; adde integritatem valetudinis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 99: corporis, id. Sen. 10, 34.—
II. Trop., dryness, jejuneness, want of ornament (very rare): isti (magistri) cum non modo dominos se fontium, sed se ipsos fontes esse dicant, et omnium rigare debeant ingenia, non putant fore ridiculum, si, cum id polliceantur aliis, arescant ipsi siccitate, Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: orationis siccitas, Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 1; cf.: jejunitatem et siccitatem et inopiam, id. Brut. 82, 285.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *siskus? Latin siccus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin siccitās From siccus (“dry”) + -tās.

Descendants
  • Romaniansecetă
  • Frenchsiccité
  • Italiansiccità
  • Portuguesesicidade
  • Aromanianseatsitã
  • Franco-Provençalsetiá
  • Liguriansesia
  • Lombardsecea
  • Neapolitansecceta
  • Romanshsedschda

In English words that came into English from siccitās

  • siccitysiccitās

Quick answers

What does siccitās mean in Latin?
siccitās, a noun, means “dryness; drought”.
What is the genitive of siccitās?
The genitive singular is siccitātis. siccitās is feminine, third declension.