audacia

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See also: audácia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audācia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈda.t͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -atʃa
  • Hyphenation: au‧dà‧cia

Noun

audacia f (plural audacie)

  1. daring, audacity
  2. boldness
  3. provocativeness

Latin

Etymology

audāx (“bold, daring”) +‎ -ia

Pronunciation

Noun

audācia f (genitive audāciae); first declension

  1. The state or quality of being bold; boldness.
  2. Daring, intrepidity; courage, valor, confidence; a daring or courageous action.
    Synonyms: animōsitās, cōnfīdentia, virtūs
  3. Daring, audacity, impetuosity, recklessness, rashness, presumption, insolence; a reckless or audacious action.
    Synonym: temeritās

Usage notes

Audācia only properly renders a sense of courage, valor or confidence in connection to risk-taking; when used in these senses there is a quality of reckless action implied. To render "courage" in the sense of an innate human quality, animōsitās is better. To render confidence in a similar sense, use cōnfīdentia.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative audācia audāciae
genitive audāciae audāciārum
dative audāciae audāciīs
accusative audāciam audāciās
ablative audāciā audāciīs
vocative audācia audāciae

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • “audacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “audacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • audacia 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)
  • audacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audācia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /auˈdaθja/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /auˈdasja/
  • Rhymes: -aθja
  • Rhymes: -asja
  • Syllabification: au‧da‧cia

Noun

audacia f (plural audacias)

  1. audacity, boldness, daring
    Synonyms: atrevimiento, osadía

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