extremitas

See also: extremitás

Latin

Etymology

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Latin extrēmus

Latin -tās

Latin extremitas

From extrēmus +‎ -tās f.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈstreː.mi.taːs/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪reːmɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstre.mi.tas/, [ekˈst̪rɛːmit̪äs]

Noun

extrēmitās f (genitive extrēmitātis); third declension

1. extremity

   Synonym: fastīgium n

2. border, outline, perimeter
3. ending, suffix

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	extrēmitās	extrēmitātēs
genitive	extrēmitātis	extrēmitātum
dative	extrēmitātī	extrēmitātibus
accusative	extrēmitātem	extrēmitātēs
ablative	extrēmitāte	extrēmitātibus
vocative	extrēmitās	extrēmitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: extremitat f
• Old French: estremité f
  • Middle French: extremite f
    • French: extrémité f
      • → Romanian: extremitate f
• Friulian: estremitât
• Italian: estremità f
• Occitan: extremitat f
• Piedmontese: estremità
• Portuguese: extremidade
• Romanian: extremitate
• Spanish: extremidad f

References

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