asperitas

From Latin asperitās, replacing the older undulatus asperatus. Doublet of asperity.

• IPA^(key): /æsˈpɛɹɪtas/, /æsˈpɛɹɪtæs/
• Hyphenation: as‧pe‧ri‧tas

asperitas (plural asperitates or asperitases or asperitas)

1. A cloud formation characterized by wavy undulations in the cloud base.

• aspirates, parasites, pastieras, satrapies

asper +‎ -tās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈpɛ.rɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈpɛː.ri.t̪as]

asperitās f (genitive asperitātis); third declension

1. unevenness, roughness
2. harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness

   Antonym: lēnitās

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.87–88:

     dēnsāque cēdit frīgoris asperitās

     and [in April] the oppressive harshness of the cold gives way
     (In this context ‘‘asperitās’’ may be understood with several of the different meanings listed here.)

3. severity, fierceness, asperity

   Synonyms: ferōcitās, crūdēlitās, feritās, sevēritās

   Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, eleēmosyna, lēnitās

Third-declension noun.

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