surditas
Latin
Noun
surditās f (genitive surditātis); third declension
- deafness
- 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | surditās | surditātēs |
| Genitive | surditātis | surditātum |
| Dative | surditātī | surditātibus |
| Accusative | surditātem | surditātēs |
| Ablative | surditāte | surditātibus |
| Vocative | surditās | surditātēs |
Related terms
- surdus
Descendants
- French: surdité
References
- surditas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- surditas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- surditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette