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Latin
Etymology
arduus + -tās
Pronunciation
Noun
arduitās f (genitive arduitātis); third declension
- (Classical Latin) steepness (state or quality of being steep)
- (Medieval Latin) eminence, importance, prominence
- (Medieval Latin) arduity, arduousness, difficulty
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (eminence, importance, prominence): ēminentia (Classical)
Descendants
References
- “ardŭĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arduitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ardŭĭtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 157/2.
- “arduitās” on page 165/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “arduitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 58/2