mediocritas

From mediocris (“moderate, medium”) +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈo.kri.taːs/, [mɛd̪iˈɔkrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈo.kri.tas/, [med̪iˈɔːkrit̪äs]

mediocritās f (genitive mediocritātis); third declension

1. a middle state
2. medium, mean
3. moderation
4. mediocrity

Third-declension noun.

• mediocris
• mediocriter

• → English: mediocrity
• → French: médiocrité
• → Italian: mediocrità
• → Portuguese: mediocridade
• → Romanian: mediocritate
• → Spanish: mediocridad

• “mediocritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mediocritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mediocritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to observe the golden mean: mediocritatem tenere (Off. 1. 25. 89)
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)