nigritia

See also: Nigritia

Interlingua

Noun

nigritia (plural nigritias)

1. blackness

Latin

Etymology

niger ‎ -itia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /niˈɡri.ti.a/, [nɪˈɡrɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niˈɡrit.t͡si.a/, [niˈɡrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

nigritia f (genitive nigritiae); first declension

1. blackness, black color

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nigritia	nigritiae
genitive	nigritiae	nigritiārum
dative	nigritiae	nigritiīs
accusative	nigritiam	nigritiās
ablative	nigritiā	nigritiīs
vocative	nigritia	nigritiae

Synonyms

• nigritiēs

Descendants

• Italian: nerezza
• Megleno-Romanian: nigreață
• Romanian: negreață
• → Italian: nigrizia

References

• “nigritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nigritia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nigritia” on page 1,177/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)