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Latin
Etymology 1
morōsus (“peevish”, “wayward”, “capricious”, “difficult ”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being)
Pronunciation
Noun
mōrōsitās f (genitive mōrōsitātis); third declension
- peevishness, fretfulness, moroseness, gloom, ill-humor, moodiness, morosity
- niceness, pedantry, over-scrupulousness, too great nicety, captiousness, persnicketiness, over-refinement, purism
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
morōsus (“slow ”, “lingering”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being).
Pronunciation
Noun
morōsitās f (genitive morōsitātis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) procrastination
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “morositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “morositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- morositas 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “morositas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 705/2