subtilitas
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]subtīlitās f (genitive subtīlitātis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | subtīlitās | subtīlitātēs |
| genitive | subtīlitātis | subtīlitātum |
| dative | subtīlitātī | subtīlitātibus |
| accusative | subtīlitātem | subtīlitātēs |
| ablative | subtīlitāte | subtīlitātibus |
| vocative | subtīlitās | subtīlitātēs |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: subtility
- → French: subtilité
- Old French: sotileté
- English: subtlety
- Italian: sottilità
- German: Subtilität
Further reading
[edit]- “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subtilitas 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)
- subtilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)
- dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)