verbositas

Latin

Etymology

From verbōsus (“verbose”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈboː.si.taːs/, [u̯ɛrˈboːs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈbo.si.tas/, [verˈbɔːs̬it̪äs]

Noun

verbōsitās f (genitive verbōsitātis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) verbosity, wordiness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	verbōsitās	verbōsitātēs
genitive	verbōsitātis	verbōsitātum
dative	verbōsitātī	verbōsitātibus
accusative	verbōsitātem	verbōsitātēs
ablative	verbōsitāte	verbōsitātibus
vocative	verbōsitās	verbōsitātēs

Descendants

• → Galician: verbosidade
• → German: Verbosität
• → Italian: verbosità
• → Middle French: verbosité
  • French: verbosité
  • → English: verbosity
• → Portuguese: verbosidade

References

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