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Latin
Etymology
From socors, socordis + -ia.
Noun
sōcordia f (genitive sōcordiae); first declension
- silliness, folly
- Synonyms: stultitia, īnsapientia, imprūdentia, stupiditās, ignōrantia, ineptitūdō, inertia
- Antonyms: sapientia, prūdentia, scientia
- carelessness, negligence
- sloth, laziness; indolence, inactivity
- Synonyms: sēgnitia, inertia, ignāvia, dēsidia, pigritia, ōtium
- Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “socordia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “socordia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- socordia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy: ignaviae et socordiae se dare