aevitas

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom (whence also aevum) + *-tāts (whence also -tās), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-. By surface analysis, aevum +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.u̯i.taːs/, [ˈäe̯u̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vi.tas/, [ˈɛːvit̪äs]
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

aevitās f (genitive aevitātis); third declension

1. Archaic form of aetās (“lifetime, age”).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aevitās	aevitātēs
genitive	aevitātis	aevitātum
dative	aevitātī	aevitātibus
accusative	aevitātem	aevitātēs
ablative	aevitāte	aevitātibus
vocative	aevitās	aevitātēs

Synonyms

• *aetaticum (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• aeviternus
• aeviternitas

References

• “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aevitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aevitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.