asperitas

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Asperitas clouds over Tallinn

Etymology

From Latin asperitās, replacing the older undulatus asperatus. Doublet of asperity.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æsˈpɛɹɪtas/, /æsˈpɛɹɪtæs/
  • Hyphenation: as‧pe‧ri‧tas

Noun

asperitas (plural asperitates or asperitases or asperitas)

  1. A cloud formation characterized by wavy undulations in the cloud base.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

asper +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

asperitās f (genitive asperitātis); third declension

  1. unevenness, roughness
  2. harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness
    Antonym: lēnitās
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.87–88:
      dēnsāque cēdit frīgoris asperitās
      and the oppressive harshness of the cold gives way
      (In this context ‘‘asperitās’’ may be understood with several of the different meanings listed here.)
  3. severity, fierceness, asperity
    Synonyms: ferōcitās, crūdēlitās, feritās, sevēritās
    Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, eleēmosyna, lēnitās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • asperitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • asperitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • asperitas 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)
  • asperitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • rough climate: caeli asperitas