violentia

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin violentia.

Noun

violentia (plural violentias)

1. violence

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s

Proto-Italic *wīs

Latin vīs

Latin violēns

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin violentia

From violēns (“violent”) + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wi.ɔˈɫɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.oˈlɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

violentia f (genitive violentiae); first declension

1. violence
2. aggressiveness

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	violentia	violentiae
genitive	violentiae	violentiārum
dative	violentiae	violentiīs
accusative	violentiam	violentiās
ablative	violentiā	violentiīs
vocative	violentia	violentiae

Related terms

• violēns

Descendants

• Catalan: violència
• Galician: violencia
• → Interlingua: violentia
• Italian: violenza
• Ladin: viulënza
• Occitan: violéncia
• → Old French: violence
  • → Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
    • English: violence
  • Franc-Comtois: vyoleince
  • French: violence
• Piedmontese: violensa
• Portuguese: violência
• Romanian: violență
• Sicilian: viulenza
• Spanish: violencia

References

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