siccitas

== Latin == === Etymology === From siccus (“dry”) + -tās. === Noun === siccitās f (genitive siccitātis); third declension dryness drought ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (dryness, drought): ariditas ==== Descendants ==== Aromanian: seatsitã Franco-Provençal: setiá Ligurian: sesia Lombard: secea (medieval) Neapolitan: secceta Romanian: secetă Romansh: sedschda Sicilian: siccità → French: siccité → Italian: siccità → Portuguese: sicidade ==== See also ==== Spanish: sequedad (later formation) === References === “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “siccitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “siccitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sĭccĭtas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 594 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sĭccĭtas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 583