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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iɲˈɲa.vja/
- Rhymes: -avja
- Hyphenation: i‧gnà‧via
Noun
ignavia f (plural ignavie)
- indolence, laxity, sloth
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ignāvus + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
ignāvia f (genitive ignāviae); first declension
- inactivity, laziness, idleness, sloth, listlessness
- Synonyms: pigritia, sēgnitia, desidia, inertia, sōcordia, ōtium
- Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās
- cowardice, worthlessness
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “ignavia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ignavia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ignavia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: ignaviae et socordiae se dare
- to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere