aevitas

Latin

Etymology

Doublet of aetās, which also derives from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts. De Vaan suggests that this term may have restored the initial aevi- on the basis of aevum. Sihler, however, merely considers it to be the intermediary stage between aetās and Proto-Italic *aiwotāts. By surface analysis, aevum +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈae̯.wɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.vi.tas]

Noun

aevitās f (genitive aevitātis); third declension

1. archaic form of aetās (“lifetime, age”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aevitās	aevitātēs
genitive	aevitātis	aevitātum
dative	aevitātī	aevitātibus
accusative	aevitātem	aevitātēs
ablative	aevitāte	aevitātibus
vocative	aevitās	aevitātēs

Synonyms

• *aetaticum (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• aeviternus
• aeviternitas

References

• “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aevitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “aevitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29