quantitas
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From quantus (“how much”) + -tās. Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs); compare quālitās.
Noun
[edit]quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
genitive | quantitātis | quantitātum |
dative | quantitātī | quantitātibus |
accusative | quantitātem | quantitātēs |
ablative | quantitāte | quantitātibus |
vocative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “quantitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quantitas 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)
- quantitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.