saevitudo

Latin

Etymology

From saevus (“furious, savage”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sae̯.wɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.viˈtuː.do]

Noun

saevitūdō f (genitive saevitūdinis); third declension

1. ferocity, violence

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	saevitūdō	saevitūdinēs
genitive	saevitūdinis	saevitūdinum
dative	saevitūdinī	saevitūdinibus
accusative	saevitūdinem	saevitūdinēs
ablative	saevitūdine	saevitūdinibus
vocative	saevitūdō	saevitūdinēs

Synonyms

• (ferocity): saevitia

Related terms

• saevē
• saevidicus
• saeviō
• saevitās
• saeviter
• saevitia
• saevum
• saevus

References

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