humilitas
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Latin
Etymology
From humilis (“humble”) + -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /huˈmi.li.taːs/, [hʊˈmɪlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /uˈmi.li.tas/, [uˈmiːlit̪äs]
Noun
humilitās f (genitive humilitātis); third declension
- insignificance, lowliness, unimportance
- degradation, debasement, humiliation
- submissiveness, obedience
- (post-Classical) humility, modesty
- c. 420 CE, John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum 12.31:
- Humilitas vero nullatenus poterit absque nuditate conquiri.
- Humility, indeed, can in no way be acquired without nakedness.
- Humilitas vero nullatenus poterit absque nuditate conquiri.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | humilitās | humilitātēs |
Genitive | humilitātis | humilitātum |
Dative | humilitātī | humilitātibus |
Accusative | humilitātem | humilitātēs |
Ablative | humilitāte | humilitātibus |
Vocative | humilitās | humilitātēs |
Descendants
- >? Neapolitan: omertà, umertà
- → Proto-Brythonic: *ʉβ̃ɨldọd (see there for further descendants)
- → Catalan: humilitat
- → Old Franco-Provençal: humilitá
- Franco-Provençal: humilitá
- → Old French: umilitet, umilite
- → Old Irish: umaldóit
- → Italian: umiltà
- → Occitan: umilitat
- → Piedmontese: umiltà
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: humildade (semi-learned)
- → Romanian: umilitate
- → Old Spanish: humildat (semi-learned)
- Spanish: humildad
- → Proto-Brythonic: *uβ̃ɨldọd
References
- “humilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “humilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- humilitas 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)
- humilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “humilitas”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 177
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “humilitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 507