captivitas

Latin

Etymology

From captīvus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kapˈtiː.u̯i.taːs/, [käpˈt̪iːu̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kapˈti.vi.tas/, [käpˈt̪iːvit̪äs]

Noun

captīvitās f (genitive captīvitātis); third declension

1. captivity, bondage
2. capture
3. blindness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	captīvitās	captīvitātēs
genitive	captīvitātis	captīvitātum
dative	captīvitātī	captīvitātibus
accusative	captīvitātem	captīvitātēs
ablative	captīvitāte	captīvitātibus
vocative	captīvitās	captīvitātēs

Descendants

• Old Spanish: catibdat
• → Catalan: captivitat
• → French: captivité
• → Galician: catividade
• → Italian: cattività
• → Portuguese: catividade
• → Romanian: captivitate
• → Spanish: cautividad
• → Welsh: caethiwed

References

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