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Latin
Etymology
From ā̆stūtus (“cunning, full of tricks”) + -ia. First attested in Plautus and as aastvtieis in 3d to 2nd century BCE Falerii, with what appears to be a practice of marking long vowels also observed in a nearby inscription.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ā̆stūtia f (genitive ā̆stūtiae); first declension
- cunning, craftiness, cleverness, shrewdness (adeptness at using tricks)
- subtlety
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.1.4:
- Ut dētur parvulīs āstūtiā, adolēscentī scientiā et intellēctus.
- To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- a cunning trick, stratagem
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- ^ CIL I2 364, a votive tablet by the Guild of Faliscan Cooks; vootum in CIL I2 365
Further reading
- “astutia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “astutia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- astutia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.