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Latin
Etymology
From callidus (“cunning, sly, crafty; wise, clever, ingenious”) + -tās.
Noun
calliditās f (genitive calliditātis); third declension
- shrewdness, readiness, aptness
- Synonyms: prūdentia, sapientia, scientia
- Antonyms: ineptitūdō, inertia, stultitia, stupiditās, īnsapientia, imprūdentia
- skill, skilfulness
- Synonym: sapientia
- Antonym: inertia
- cunning, craft, slyness, artfulness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “calliditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calliditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calliditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.