lascivia

lascivia f (plural lascivie)

1. lasciviousness

• lascivo

• lasciavi, lisciava, scialavi, scialiva

From lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫasˈkiː.wi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [laʃˈʃiː.vi.a]

lascīvia f (genitive lascīviae); first declension

1. wantonness, jollity

   Synonyms: voluptās, gaudium, dēlectātiō, laetitia, alacritās

   Antonyms: lūctus, dēsīderium, maestitia, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, maeror

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: lascívia

• “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lascivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lascivia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lascivia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lascivious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin lascīvia, from lascīvus (“wanton, petulant, sportive”).

• IPA^(key): /lasˈθibja/ [lasˈθi.β̞ja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /laˈsibja/ [laˈsi.β̞ja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ibja
• Syllabification: las‧ci‧via

lascivia f (plural lascivias)

1. lasciviousness
2. (dated) immoderate appetite, longing

• “lascivia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025