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Latin
Etymology
From prāvus + -tās.
Noun
prāvitās f (genitive prāvitātis); third declension
- crookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity
- impropriety, perverseness
- viciousness, untowardness, depravity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pravitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pravitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pravitas 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)
- pravitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be filled with absurd prejudices: opinionum pravitate infici