identitas

See also: identitás

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin identitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i.dɛnˈti.tas]
• Hyphenation: idèntitas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

idèntitas (plural identitas-identitas)

1. identity.

   Synonym: jati diri

   kartu identitas ― identity card

Alternative forms

• idéntiti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• beridentitas

 

• kartu identitas
• krisis identitas

 

Related terms

• identifikasi

 

Further reading

• “identitas” 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 idem n (“the same”) +‎ -tās, a calque of Ancient Greek ταὐτότης (tautótēs, “sameness”). Compare essentitās, essentiālitās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iˈden.ti.taːs/, [ɪˈd̪ɛn̪t̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈden.ti.tas/, [iˈd̪ɛn̪t̪it̪äs]

Noun

identitās f (genitive identitātis); third declension

1. (Late Latin, philosophy, theology) sameness, identicalness, identity

   Synonyms: ūnitās, identitūdō

   Antonym: alteritās

   identitās nātūrae ― the identicalness of nature

   identitās fōrmalis et reālis ― formal and objective identity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	identitās	identitātēs
genitive	identitātis	identitātum
dative	identitātī	identitātibus
accusative	identitātem	identitātēs
ablative	identitāte	identitātibus
vocative	identitās	identitātēs

Derived terms

• identicus
• identificō
• identificus
• identificātiō

Related terms

• īdem
• identidem

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: identitat
• Danish: identitet
• English: identity
• French: identité
• Galician: identidade
• Hungarian: identitás
• Indonesian: identitas
• Italian: identità
• Portuguese: identidade
• Romanian: identitate
• Spanish: identidad

References

• “identitās” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• DMLBS

Further reading

• identitas 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)
• identitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• identitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “identity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.