stultitia

Latin

Etymology

From stultus (“stupid, foolish”) +‎ -itia (“-ness, -ity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [stʊɫˈtɪ.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [st̪ul̪ˈt̪it̪.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Noun

stultitia f (genitive stultitiae); first declension

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

   Synonyms: īnsapientia, imprūdentia, stupiditās, sōcordia, ignōrantia, ineptitūdō, inertia

   Antonyms: sapientia, prūdentia, scientia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stultitia	stultitiae
genitive	stultitiae	stultitiārum
dative	stultitiae	stultitiīs
accusative	stultitiam	stultitiās
ablative	stultitiā	stultitiīs
vocative	stultitia	stultitiae

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Spanish: estulticia

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.