truculentia

Latin

Etymology

truculentus (savage, harsh) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

truculentia f (genitive truculentiae); first declension

  1. fierceness, savageness, grimness, brutality
  2. harshness, sternness

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative truculentia truculentiae
genitive truculentiae truculentiārum
dative truculentiae truculentiīs
accusative truculentiam truculentiās
ablative truculentiā truculentiīs
vocative truculentia truculentiae

Descendants

  • Portuguese: truculência
  • Italian: truculenza
  • Spanish: truculencia
  • French: truculence
  • English: truculence

References

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