instabilitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *staējō

Proto-Italic *staēō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Proto-Italic *staðlis?

Latin stabilis

Latin instabilis

Latin -tās

Latin īnstabilitās

From instabilis + -tās.

Noun

īnstabilitās f (genitive īnstabilitātis); third declension

1. unsteadiness, instability

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnstabilitās	īnstabilitātēs
genitive	īnstabilitātis	īnstabilitātum
dative	īnstabilitātī	īnstabilitātibus
accusative	īnstabilitātem	īnstabilitātēs
ablative	īnstabilitāte	īnstabilitātibus
vocative	īnstabilitās	īnstabilitātēs

Descendants

• Italian: instabilità
• Spanish: instabilidad

References

• “instabilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “instabilitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.