velocitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.

Latin vēlōx

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin vēlōcitās

From vēlōx (“swift, quick”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈɫoː.kɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈlɔː.t͡ʃi.tas]

Noun

vēlōcitās f (genitive vēlōcitātis); third declension

1. speed, velocity, swiftness, rapidity, fleetness

   Synonym: celeritās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vēlōcitās	vēlōcitātēs
genitive	vēlōcitātis	vēlōcitātum
dative	vēlōcitātī	vēlōcitātibus
accusative	vēlōcitātem	vēlōcitātēs
ablative	vēlōcitāte	vēlōcitātibus
vocative	vēlōcitās	vēlōcitātēs

Related terms

• vēlōciter
• vēlōx

Descendants

• → Catalan: velocitat
• → English: velocity
• → French: vélocité
• → Galician: velocidade
• → Italian: velocità
• → Portuguese: velocidade
• → Romanian: velocitate
• → Sicilian: vilucità, vilucitati
• → Spanish: velocidad
• → Swedish: velocitet

References

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