raritas

Latin

Etymology

From rārus (“loose, sparse, rare”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.ri.taːs/, [ˈräːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ri.tas/, [ˈräːrit̪äs]

Noun

rāritās f (genitive rāritātis); third declension

1. looseness, thinness, the state of being loose, not dense
2. rarity, scarcity, moderation
3. a thing that is rare, a rarity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rāritās	rāritātēs
Genitive	rāritātis	rāritātum
Dative	rāritātī	rāritātibus
Accusative	rāritātem	rāritātēs
Ablative	rāritāte	rāritātibus
Vocative	rāritās	rāritātēs

Related terms

• rārus

Descendants

• Catalan: raritat
• English: rarity
• French: rareté
• Italian: rarità
• Polish: rarytas
• Portuguese: raridade
• Romanian: raritate
• Russian: раритет (raritet)
• Spanish: raridad

References

• “raritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “raritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• raritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• raritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.