humiditas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ūmeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin ūmidus

Latin hūmidus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin hūmiditās

From hūmidus + -tās.

Noun

hūmiditās f (genitive hūmiditātis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. alternative form of ūmiditās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hūmiditās	hūmiditātēs
genitive	hūmiditātis	hūmiditātum
dative	hūmiditātī	hūmiditātibus
accusative	hūmiditātem	hūmiditātēs
ablative	hūmiditāte	hūmiditātibus
vocative	hūmiditās	hūmiditātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: humitat
• Galician: humidade
• Italian: umidità
• → Old French: humidité (learned)
  • → Middle English: humidite
    • > English: humidity (inherited)
  • > French: humidité (inherited)
    • → Romanian: umiditate
• Portuguese: humidade / umidade
• Spanish: humedad

References

• “humiditas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.