mediocritas

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Latin

Etymology

From mediocris (“moderate, medium”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

mediocritās f (genitive mediocritātis); third declension

  1. a middle state
  2. medium, mean
  3. moderation
  4. mediocrity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mediocritās mediocritātēs
genitive mediocritātis mediocritātum
dative mediocritātī mediocritātibus
accusative mediocritātem mediocritātēs
ablative mediocritāte mediocritātibus
vocative mediocritās mediocritātēs

Descendants

References

  • “mediocritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mediocritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mediocritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to observe the golden mean: mediocritatem tenere (Off. 1. 25. 89)
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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