capacitas

See also: capacitás

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: capacita, capacitât

Verb

capacitas

1. second-person singular past historic of capaciter

Latin

Etymology

From capāx +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈpaː.ki.taːs/, [käˈpäːkɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpa.t͡ʃi.tas/, [käˈpäːt͡ʃit̪äs]

Noun

capācitās f (genitive capācitātis); third declension

1. capability; capacity

   Synonyms: ops, fortitūdō, efficācia, valētūdō

2. comprehension

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capācitās	capācitātēs
Genitive	capācitātis	capācitātum
Dative	capācitātī	capācitātibus
Accusative	capācitātem	capācitātēs
Ablative	capācitāte	capācitātibus
Vocative	capācitās	capācitātēs

Related terms

• capāx

Descendants

• Asturian: capacidá
• Catalan: capacitat
• Czech: kapacita
• English: capacity
• French: capacité
• Galician: capacidade
• → Hungarian: kapacitás
• Italian: capacità
• Maltese: kapaċità
• Piedmontese: capacità
• Portuguese: capacidade
• Romanian: capacitate
• Serbo-Croatian: kapacitet
• Spanish: capacidad

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

capacitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of capacitar

Spanish

Verb

capacitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of capacitar