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Latin
Etymology
From improbus (“wicked, immoral, shameless”) + -tas (“-ness, -ity”).
Noun
improbitās f (genitive improbitātis); third declension
- wickedness, dishonesty, improbity
- shamelessness, depravity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “improbitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “improbitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- improbitas 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)
- improbitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.