obscenitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obscenitas, obscenitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
indecency, obscenity (language); indecent/obscene behavior/figures; ill omen;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uerum ista perducerem: quia non licet, mendacio pascar. Obscenitas mea plus quam capit uideat et patientiam suam ipsa..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam scurrilis et scaenica huic personae alienissima est: obscenitas vero non a verbis tantum abesse debet, sed etiam..."