securitas

Latin

Etymology

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Latin sē-

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

Latin sēcūrus

Latin -tās

Latin sēcūritās

From sēcūrus + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seːˈkuː.rɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkuː.ri.tas]

Noun

sēcūritās f (genitive sēcūritātis); third declension

1. security, safety

   Synonyms: impūnitās, salūs

   Nihil tam alte insederat eius animo, quam securitas rei publicae ― He desired nothing so much, as the safety of the commonwealth.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sēcūritās	sēcūritātēs
genitive	sēcūritātis	sēcūritātum
dative	sēcūritātī	sēcūritātibus
accusative	sēcūritātem	sēcūritātēs
ablative	sēcūritāte	sēcūritātibus
vocative	sēcūritās	sēcūritātēs

Descendants

• Asturian: seguridá
• Catalan: seguretat
• English: security, surety
• French: sécurité, sûreté
• Italian: sicurtà
• Occitan: seguretat
• Old French: seurté
• Portuguese: seguridade
• Romanian: securitate
• Spanish: seguridad

References

• “securitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “securitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "securitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “securitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.