perspicuitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.

Proto-Italic *peri-

Latin per-

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Italic *spekjō

Latin speciō

Latin perspic(iō)

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Italic *-wos

Latin -uus

Latin perspicuus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin perspicuitās

From perspicuus + -tās.

Noun

perspicuitās f (genitive perspicuitātis); third declension

1. transparency, clarity
2. perspicuity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	perspicuitās	perspicuitātēs
genitive	perspicuitātis	perspicuitātum
dative	perspicuitātī	perspicuitātibus
accusative	perspicuitātem	perspicuitātēs
ablative	perspicuitāte	perspicuitātibus
vocative	perspicuitās	perspicuitātēs

Descendants

• English: perspicuity
• French: perspicuité
• Italian: perspicuità
• Spanish: perspicuidad

References

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