astutia

From ā̆stūtus (“cunning, full of tricks”) +‎ -ia. First attested in Plautus and as aastvtieis in 3d to 2nd century BCE Falerii, with what appears to be a practice of marking long vowels also observed in a nearby inscription.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aːsˈtuː.ti.a], [asˈtuː.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈt̪ut̪.t̪͡s̪i.a]

ā̆stūtia f (genitive ā̆stūtiae); first declension

1. cunning, craftiness, cleverness, shrewdness (adeptness at using tricks)
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 722–723:

     [...] nunc opus est tuā / mihi ad hanc rem exprōmptā memoriā atque astūtiā.

     Now all I need is your wits and cunning applied to this scheme.

2. subtlety
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.4:

     Ut dētur parvulīs āstūtiā, adolēscentī scientiā et intellēctus.

     To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

3. a cunning trick, stratagem

First-declension noun.

• “astūtia” on page 212 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

• “astutia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “astutia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• astutia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.