stultitia

Latin

Etymology

From stultus (“stupid, foolish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /stulˈti.ti.a/, [s̠t̪ʊɫ̪ˈt̪ɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stulˈtit.t͡si.a/, [st̪ul̪ˈt̪it̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

stultitia f (genitive stultitiae); first declension

1. Folly, stupidity, foolishness, simplicity, silliness, fatuity.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stultitia	stultitiae
Genitive	stultitiae	stultitiārum
Dative	stultitiae	stultitiīs
Accusative	stultitiam	stultitiās
Ablative	stultitiā	stultitiīs
Vocative	stultitia	stultitiae

Related terms

• stultificō
• stultiloquentia
• stultiloquium
• stultiloquus
• stultividus
• stultus
• stultē

 

References

• “stultitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stultitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stultitia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stultitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.