prosperitas

See also: prosperitás

Latin

Etymology

From prosperus +‎ -tās.

Noun

prosperitās f (genitive prosperitātis); third declension

1. success
2. prosperity
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.32:

     prosperitās stultōrum perdet illōs

     the prosperity of fools shall destroy them (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

3. joy, approbation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prosperitās	prosperitātēs
genitive	prosperitātis	prosperitātum
dative	prosperitātī	prosperitātibus
accusative	prosperitātem	prosperitātēs
ablative	prosperitāte	prosperitātibus
vocative	prosperitās	prosperitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: prosperitat
• English: prosperity
• French: prospérité
• Galician: prosperidade
• German: Prosperität
• Italian: prosperità
• Portuguese: prosperidade
• Romanian: prosperitate
• Spanish: prosperidad

References

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