pestilentia

Latin

Etymology

From pestilentus (“pestilent”) +‎ -ia.

Noun

pestilentia f (genitive pestilentiae); first declension

  1. infectious or contagious disease; plague, pestilence

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pestilentia pestilentiae
genitive pestilentiae pestilentiārum
dative pestilentiae pestilentiīs
accusative pestilentiam pestilentiās
ablative pestilentiā pestilentiīs
vocative pestilentia pestilentiae

Descendants

Adjective

pestilentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pestilēns

References

  • “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pestilentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
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