densitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēnsitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈsitas/
• Hyphenation: dèn‧si‧tas
• Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s

Noun

dènsitas (plural densitas-densitas, first-person possessive densitasku, second-person possessive densitasmu, third-person possessive densitasnya)

1. density:
   1. (physics) a measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.

      Synonym: massa jenis

   2. the ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.

      Synonyms: kepadatan, kerapatan

Further reading

• “densitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From densus +‎ -tas.

Noun

dēnsitās f (genitive dēnsitātis); third declension

1. thickness
2. density
3. abundance

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēnsitās	dēnsitātēs
Genitive	dēnsitātis	dēnsitātum
Dative	dēnsitātī	dēnsitātibus
Accusative	dēnsitātem	dēnsitātēs
Ablative	dēnsitāte	dēnsitātibus
Vocative	dēnsitās	dēnsitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: densitat
• English: density
• French: densité
• Italian: densità
• Portuguese: densidade
• Romanian: densitate
• Spanish: densidad

References

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