sedulitas

From sēdulus +‎ -tās.

sēdulitās f (genitive sēdulitātis); third declension

1. sedulity, sedulousness, application, assiduity, earnestness, zeal,
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.667–668:

     orta suburbānīs quaedam fuit Annā Bovillīs,
     pauper, sed multae sēdulitātis ānus.

     There was a certain Anna, born at Bovillae outside the city,
     a poor old woman, but [someone] of much sedulity.
     Or, in more idiomatic English:
     [...] a poor old woman who still kept herself very active.
     (The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)

Third-declension noun.

• sedulus

• “sedulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sedulitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sedulitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.