exiguitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin exig(ō)

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Italic *-wos

Latin -uus

Latin exiguus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin exiguitās

From exiguus + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.sɪˈɡu.ɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.ziˈɡuː.i.tas]

Noun

exiguitās f (genitive exiguitātis); third declension

1. scantiness
2. smallness, shortness
   • 1637, Pierre de Fermat:

     Hanc [dēmōnstrātiōnem] marginis exiguitās nōn caperet.

     The smallness of the margin could not contain this [proof].

3. scarcity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exiguitās	exiguitātēs
genitive	exiguitātis	exiguitātum
dative	exiguitātī	exiguitātibus
accusative	exiguitātem	exiguitātēs
ablative	exiguitāte	exiguitātibus
vocative	exiguitās	exiguitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: exigüitat
• French: exiguïté
• Galician: exigüidade
• Italian: esiguità
• Portuguese: exiguidade
• Spanish: exigüidad

References

• “exiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exiguitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “exiguitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.