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Latin
Etymology
From inīquus (“unfair, unjust”) + -tas, from in- + aequus (“equal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
inīquitās f (genitive inīquitātis); third declension
- unfairness, inequality, unevenness
- injustice, inequity
- iniquity
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Exodus.20.5:
- Nōn adōrābis ea, neque colēs: ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zēlōtēs, vīsitāns inīquitātem patrum in fīliōs, in tertiam et quārtam generātiōnem eōrum quī ōdērunt mē.
- Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
- crime
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “iniquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iniquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iniquitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- under such unfavourable circumstances: in tanta rerum (temporum) iniquitate
- to be severely tried by misfortune: multis iniquitatibus exerceri