nequitia

• nēquitiēs

From nēquam (“worthless”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [neːˈkʷɪ.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [neˈkʷit.t͡si.a]

nēquitia f (genitive nēquitiae); first declension

1. A bad moral quality; idleness, negligence, inactivity, remissness; worthlessness; vileness, depravity, wickedness
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.29:

     Sed, sī quis est invidiae metus, nōn est vehementius sevēritātis ac fortitūdinis invidiā quam inertiae ac nēquitiae pertimēscenda.

     But, if there is any fear of unpopularity, the resentment of severity and resolve is not to be feared more strongly than that of inaction and worthlessness.

2. Lightness, levity, inconsiderateness.
3. Prodigality, profusion.
4. Profligacy, wantonness, roguery, lewdness.

First-declension noun.

• nēquam
• nēquiter

• → Italian: nequizia
• → Portuguese: nequícia
• → Spanish: nequicia

• “nequitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nequitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nequitia", 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)
• “nequitia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.