lascivitas

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Latin

Noun

lascīvitās f (genitive lascīvitātis); third declension

  1. lascivity, lasciviousness, wantonness
    • c. 1292–1298, Jacobus de Voragine, Chronica civitatis Ianuensis [Chronicles of the City of Genoa]‎, archived from the original on 2023-09-03, page 166:
      nōn dēbent igitur cīvēs et lascīvitātibus subicī, sed in rēbus virtuōsīs et bellicīs exercitārī.
      And citizens, therefore, ought not be put under the control of lascivities, but be practised in virtuous and military affairs.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Participle

lascīvītās

  1. accusative feminine plural of lascīvītus

References

  • lascivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lascivitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.