audacia

Borrowed from Latin audācia.

audacia f (plural audacie)

1. daring, audacity
2. boldness
3. provocativeness

• audace

audāx (“bold, daring”) +‎ -ia

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdaː.ki.a/

audācia f (genitive audāciae); first declension

1. The state or quality of being bold; boldness.
2. (good sense) Daring, intrepidity, courage, valor, confidence; a daring or courageous action.
3. (bad sense) Daring, audacity, impetuosity, recklessness, rashness, presumption, insolence; a reckless or audacious action.

Audācia only properly renders a sense of courage, valor or confidence in connection to risk-taking; when used in these senses there is a quality of reckless action implied. To render "courage" in the sense of an innate human quality, animōsitās is better. To render confidence in a similar sense, use cōnfīdentia.

First declension.

• (courage): audentia, fortitūdō, mēns, mīlitia, virtūs

• audāciter
• audacter
• audāculus

• audacia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• audacia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• audacia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• audacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin audācia.

audacia f (plural audacias)

1. audacity

• audaz