adversitas
Latin
Etymology
adversus (“set opposite; turned toward”, perfect passive participle of advertō) + -itās (“-ity, -ness”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /adˈu̯er.si.taːs/, [äd̪ˈu̯ɛrs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /adˈver.si.tas/, [äd̪ˈvɛrsit̪äs]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italian: avversità
- Old French: adversité
- Middle French: adversité
- French: adversité
- → Romanian: adversitate
- French: adversité
- → Middle English: adversitee
- English: adversity
- Middle French: adversité
- Portuguese: adversidade
- Spanish: adversidad
References
- “adversitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adversitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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