siccitas

Latin

Etymology

From siccus (“dry”).

Noun

siccitās f (genitive siccitātis); third declension

1. drought, dryness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	siccitās	siccitātēs
Genitive	siccitātis	siccitātum
Dative	siccitātī	siccitātibus
Accusative	siccitātem	siccitātēs
Ablative	siccitāte	siccitātibus
Vocative	siccitās	siccitātēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: seatsitã
• French: siccité
• Italian: siccità
• Portuguese: sicidade
• Romanian: secetă
• Spanish: sequedad

References

• “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• siccitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the plain style: siccitas, sanitas orationis