simplicitas

Latin

Etymology

simplex, simplicis +‎ -tās

Noun

simplicitās f (genitive simplicitātis); third declension

1. simplicity
2. plainness, frankness, openness
3. innocence, honesty, candor, integrity
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.28.6:

     Melior est pauper ambulāns in simplicitāte, suā quam dīves prāvīs itineribus.

     Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

4. directness, ingenuousness, naturalness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	simplicitās	simplicitātēs
Genitive	simplicitātis	simplicitātum
Dative	simplicitātī	simplicitātibus
Accusative	simplicitātem	simplicitātēs
Ablative	simplicitāte	simplicitātibus
Vocative	simplicitās	simplicitātēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: simplicitat
• → French: simplicité
• → Galician: simplicidade
• → German: Simplizität
• → Italian: semplicità
• → Portuguese: simplicidade
• → Romanian: simplicitate
• → Spanish: simplicidad

References

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