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Latin
Etymology
From strēnuus (“brisk, quick”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
strēnuitās f (genitive strēnuitātis); third declension
- nimbleness, briskness, vivacity, activity
- Synonyms: impigritās, alacritās, āctīvitās
- Antonyms: sēgnitia, pigritia, inertia, ignāvia, dēsidia, sōcordia, ōtium
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “strenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “strenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- strenuitas 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)
- strenuitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.