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Latin
Etymology
From sēdulus + -tās.
Noun
sēdulitās f (genitive sēdulitātis); third declension
- sedulity, sedulousness, application, assiduity, earnestness, zeal,
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.667–668:
- orta suburbānīs quaedam fuit Annā Bovillīs,
pauper, sed multae sēdulitātis ānus.- There was a certain Anna, born at Bovillae outside the city,
a poor old woman, but of much sedulity.
Or, in more idiomatic English:
a poor old woman who still kept herself very active.
(The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “sedulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sedulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sedulitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.