densitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēnsitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈsitas/
• Hyphenation: dèn‧si‧tas
• Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s

Noun

dènsitas (plural densitas-densitas)

1. density:
   1. (physics) a measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

      Synonym: massa jenis

      Synonym: ketumpatan (Standard Malay)

   2. the ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.

      Synonyms: kepadatan, kerapatan

Further reading

• “densitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (“dense, crowded, frequent”) +‎ -tās (forms feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).

Noun

dēnsitās f (genitive dēnsitātis); third declension

1. thickness
2. density
3. abundance

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēnsitās	dēnsitātēs
genitive	dēnsitātis	dēnsitātum
dative	dēnsitātī	dēnsitātibus
accusative	dēnsitātem	dēnsitātēs
ablative	dēnsitāte	dēnsitātibus
vocative	dēnsitās	dēnsitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: densitat
• English: density
• French: densité
• Galician: densidade
• Italian: densità
• Portuguese: densidade
• Romanian: densitate
• Sicilian: dinzità, dinzitati
• Spanish: densidad

References

• “densitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• densitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.