lanositas

Latin

Etymology

lānōsus (“woolly”) +‎ -itās (“-ity, -ness”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laːˈnoː.si.taːs/, [ɫ̪äːˈnoːs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈno.si.tas/, [läˈnɔːs̬it̪äs]

Noun

lānōsitās f (genitive lānōsitātis); third declension

1. (post-Classical) woolliness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lānōsitās	lānōsitātēs
genitive	lānōsitātis	lānōsitātum
dative	lānōsitātī	lānōsitātibus
accusative	lānōsitātem	lānōsitātēs
ablative	lānōsitāte	lānōsitātibus
vocative	lānōsitās	lānōsitātēs

Descendants

• → English: lanosity
• → Italian: lanosità (learned)

References

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