caecitas
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.ki.taːs/, [ˈkäe̯kɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.t͡ʃi.tas/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːt͡ʃit̪äs]
Noun
[edit]caecitās f (genitive caecitātis); third declension
- blindness
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | caecitās | caecitātēs |
genitive | caecitātis | caecitātum |
dative | caecitātī | caecitātibus |
accusative | caecitātem | caecitātēs |
ablative | caecitāte | caecitātibus |
vocative | caecitās | caecitātēs |
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “caecitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caecitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caecitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.