apathia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “insensibility, freedom from emotion”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.paˈtʰiː.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.paˈt̪iː.a]

Noun

apathīa f (genitive apathīae); first declension

A freedom from passion or feeling; insensibility; stoicism.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apathīa	apathīae
genitive	apathīae	apathīārum
dative	apathīae	apathīīs
accusative	apathīam	apathīās
ablative	apathīā	apathīīs
vocative	apathīa	apathīae

Synonyms

(insensibility): dūritia, immōbilitās

Descendants

Catalan: apatia
English: apathy
French: apathie
- → Bulgarian: апа́тия (apátija)
- → Dutch: apathie
  - → Indonesian: apati
- → English: apathy
- → Romanian: apatie
- → Turkish: apati
Galician: apatía
Italian: apatia
Occitan: apatia
Portuguese: apatia
Spanish: apatía
→ Czech: apatie
→ Danish: apati
→ Esperanto: apatia
→ Estonian: apaatia
→ Finnish: apatia
→ German: Apathie
→ Hebrew: אָפַּתְיָה (apatia)
→ Hungarian: apátia
→ Macedonian: апатија (apatija)
→ Norwegian Bokmål: apati
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: apati
→ Polish: apatia
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: апатија
- Latin script: apatija
→ Slovak: apatia
→ Slovene: apatia
→ Swedish: apati
→ Ukrainian: апа́тія (apátija)
→ Yiddish: אַפּאַטיע (apatye)

References

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