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Italian
Noun
lascivia f (plural lascivie)
- lasciviousness
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lascīvia f (genitive lascīviae); first declension
- wantonness, jollity
- Synonyms: voluptās, gaudium, dēlectātiō, laetitia, alacritās
- Antonyms: lūctus, dēsīderium, maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, maeror
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lascivia 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)
- lascivia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lascivious”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lascīvia, from lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /lasˈθibja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /laˈsibja/
- Rhymes: -ibja
- Syllabification: las‧ci‧via
Noun
lascivia f (plural lascivias)
- lasciviousness
- (dated) immoderate appetite, longing
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