sanctitas

Latin

Etymology

From sānctus +‎ -tās.

Noun

sānctitās f (genitive sānctitātis); third declension

1. inviolability, sacredness, sanctity
2. holiness, virtue, piety, integrity, honour, chastity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sānctitās	sānctitātēs
Genitive	sānctitātis	sānctitātum
Dative	sānctitātī	sānctitātibus
Accusative	sānctitātem	sānctitātēs
Ablative	sānctitāte	sānctitātibus
Vocative	sānctitās	sānctitātēs

Descendants

• Old Francoprovençal: saintiá
• Italian: santità
• Old French: sancteté
  • French: sainteté
  • English: sanctity
• Old Galician-Portuguese: santidade
  • Portuguese: santidade , sanctidade
• Old Spanish: sanctidat
  • Spanish: santidad
• → Romanian: sfințitate (calque)

References

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