aevitas

Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom (whence also aevum) + *-tāts (whence also -tās), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-. Surface etymology: from aevum +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.u̯i.taːs/, [ˈäe̯u̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

aevitās f (genitive aevitātis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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’s 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.