truculentia

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Latin

Etymology

truculentus (savage, harsh) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

truculentia f (genitive truculentiae); first declension

  1. fierceness, savageness, grimness, brutality
  2. harshness, sternness

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative truculentia truculentiae
genitive truculentiae truculentiārum
dative truculentiae truculentiīs
accusative truculentiam truculentiās
ablative truculentiā truculentiīs
vocative truculentia truculentiae

Descendants

References

truculentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press truculentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.