calliditas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin callum

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *-ējō

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ēō

Latin -eō

Latin calleō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin callidus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin calliditās

From callidus (“cunning, sly, crafty; wise, clever, ingenious”) + -tās.

Noun

calliditās f (genitive calliditātis); third declension

1. shrewdness, readiness, aptness

   Synonyms: prūdentia, sapientia, scientia

   Antonyms: ineptitūdō, inertia, stultitia, stupiditās, īnsapientia, imprūdentia

2. skill, skilfulness

   Synonym: sapientia

   Antonym: inertia

3. cunning, craft, slyness, artfulness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	calliditās	calliditātēs
genitive	calliditātis	calliditātum
dative	calliditātī	calliditātibus
accusative	calliditātem	calliditātēs
ablative	calliditāte	calliditātibus
vocative	calliditās	calliditātēs

References

• “calliditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calliditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calliditas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.