maestitia

Latin

Alternative forms

• moestitia, mestitia
• maestities, moestities

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin maestus

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin -itia

Latin maestitia

From maestus (“sad, sorrowful”) + -itia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mae̯sˈtɪ.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mesˈtit.t͡si.a]

Noun

maestitia f (genitive maestitiae); first declension

1. sadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, melancholy

   Synonyms: maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, aegritūdō, dēsīderium

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	maestitia	maestitiae
genitive	maestitiae	maestitiārum
dative	maestitiae	maestitiīs
accusative	maestitiam	maestitiās
ablative	maestitiā	maestitiīs
vocative	maestitia	maestitiae

Related terms

• maestus

References

• “maestitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “maestitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “maestitia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• maestitia in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “maestitia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC