To: wideawake
I can't think of a good Latin word to express the antonym of "gravitas". That would be "levitas" (lightness, levity / fickleness, inconstancy / groundlessness) deriving from "levis" ( light, slight, trivial / light-armed).
96 posted on
09/15/2006 7:22:28 AM PDT by
Polybius
To: Polybius
Thanks. I don't associate levitas with a pejorative connotation, but as you point out, that's not etymologically justified.
112 posted on
09/15/2006 8:02:17 AM PDT by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Polybius
I can't think of a good Latin word to express the antonym of "gravitas". That would be "levitas" (lightness, levity / fickleness, inconstancy / groundlessness) deriving from "levis" ( light, slight, trivial / light-armed).
How about "Toro-cacas?"
121 posted on
09/15/2006 9:32:48 AM PDT by
N. Theknow
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To: Polybius; wideawake
"
I can't think of a good Latin word to express the antonym of "gravitas".
"That would be "levitas" (lightness, levity / fickleness, inconstancy / groundlessness) deriving from "levis" ( light, slight, trivial / light-armed).
While levitas is certainly usable, I've used the more serious lucifugent to describe the MSM and DNC since the Clinton dark age. It just sounds right. And the deer in the headlight looks are priceless ;>)
lucifugus = shunning the light
124 posted on
09/15/2006 10:45:02 AM PDT by
Covenantor
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