benevolentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin benevolēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin benevolentia

From benevolēns + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɛ.nɛ.wɔˈɫɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [be.ne.voˈlɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

benevolentia f (genitive benevolentiae); first declension

1. kindness

   Synonyms: indulgentia, pietās, beneficium, cōmitās, benignitās, venia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	benevolentia	benevolentiae
genitive	benevolentiae	benevolentiārum
dative	benevolentiae	benevolentiīs
accusative	benevolentiam	benevolentiās
ablative	benevolentiā	benevolentiīs
vocative	benevolentia	benevolentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: benevolència
• English: benevolence
• French: bénévolence
• Galician: benevolencia
• Italian: benevolenza
• Portuguese: benevolência
• Romanian: bunăvoință
• Spanish: benevolencia

References

• “benevolentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “benevolentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “benevolentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-disposed towards..: benevolentiam habere erga aliquem
    
  • to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
    
  • to show kindness to..: benevolentiam alicui praestare, in aliquem conferre
    
  • to show kindness to..: benevolentia aliquem complecti or prosequi
    

Paronyms

• beneolentia