maestĭtĭa | moest- (noun F) : (), , maestus
* A being sad or sorrowful, sadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, melancholy (class.): ex maestitiā, ex hilaritate, ex risu, etc.,Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: totis theatris maestitiam inferre,id. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: esse in maestitiā,id. Phil. 2, 15, 37: maestitiae resistere,id. Or. 43, 148: sapientia est una, quae maestitiam pellat ex animis,id. Fin. 1, 13, 43: illa maestitia est, caruisse anno circensibus uno,Juv. 11, 53.—Of inanim. things, gloom, gloominess, severity: orationis,Cic. Or. 16, 53: frigorum,Col. 7, 3, 11.

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