vilitas

Latin

Etymology

From vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.li.taːs/, [ˈu̯iːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li.tas/, [ˈviːlit̪äs]

Noun

vīlitās f (genitive vīlitātis); third declension

1. cheapness, inexpensiveness
2. meanness, baseness, worthlessness, vileness
3. contempt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīlitās	vīlitātēs
Genitive	vīlitātis	vīlitātum
Dative	vīlitātī	vīlitātibus
Accusative	vīlitātem	vīlitātēs
Ablative	vīlitāte	vīlitātibus
Vocative	vīlitās	vīlitātēs

Descendants

• English: vility
• French: vilité
• Italian: viltà

References

• “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vilitas 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)
• vilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona