truculentia

== Latin == === Etymology === truculentus (“savage, harsh”) +‎ -ia. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [trʊ.kʊˈɫɛn.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tru.kuˈlɛn.t͡si.a] === Noun === truculentia f (genitive truculentiae); first declension fierceness, savageness, grimness, brutality harshness, sternness ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== 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.