The corpus record — Latin

torvitas

torvitas · f

wildness

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Where it lives

De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

torvĭtas — Lewis & Short

torvĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I wildness, savageness, severity, sternness of aspect, character, etc. (post-Aug.): torvitas vultūs, Tac. H. 2, 9 fin.: oculorum, Amm. 31, 2, 7: capitis (pantherae), Plin. 8, 17, 23, § 62: naturae, id. 7, 19, 18, § 79: M. Agrippa, vir rusticitati propior quam deliciis ... verum eadem illa torvitas tabulas duas Ajacis et Veneris mercata est, etc., id. 35, 4, 9, § 26.

In the wild

torvitas Seneca, De Constantia 2.18.1
torvitate Tacitus, Historiae 2.10
torvitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.7.11
torvitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.3.3
torvitatem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.4.2
torvitas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.85.8

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Where it came from

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