utilitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt-der.?

Proto-Italic *oitōr

Latin ūtor

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin ūtilis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin ūtilitās

From ūtilis + -tās.

Noun

ūtilitās f (genitive ūtilitātis); third declension

1. usefulness, utility
2. expediency
3. advantage

   Exsecūtiō officiī plērumque certum suae ūtilitātis proximae sacrificium implicat.

   The performance of a duty usually involves a certain sacrifice of one's own immediate benefit.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūtilitās	ūtilitātēs
genitive	ūtilitātis	ūtilitātum
dative	ūtilitātī	ūtilitātibus
accusative	ūtilitātem	ūtilitātēs
ablative	ūtilitāte	ūtilitātibus
vocative	ūtilitās	ūtilitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: utilitat
• English: utility
• French: utilité
• Galician: utilidade
• Italian: utilità
• Occitan: utilitat
• Portuguese: utilidade
• Romanian: utilitate
• Spanish: utilidad

References

• “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “utilitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • untold advantages arise from a thing: utilitas efflorescit ex aliqua re
    
  • to be serviceable: utilitatem afferre, praebere
    
  • to considerably (in no way) further the common good: multum (nihil) ad communem utilitatem afferre
    
  • to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
    
• utilitas in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016