excellentia
Latin
Etymology
From excellēns (“elevated, exalted”) + -ia, present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.skelˈlen.ti.a/, [ɛks̠kɛlˈlʲɛn̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.ʃelˈlen.t͡si.a/, [ekʃelˈlɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
excellentia f (genitive excellentiae); first declension
- excellence, superiority
- merit
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | excellentia | excellentiae |
| Genitive | excellentiae | excellentiārum |
| Dative | excellentiae | excellentiīs |
| Accusative | excellentiam | excellentiās |
| Ablative | excellentiā | excellentiīs |
| Vocative | excellentia | excellentiae |
Related terms
- excellēns
- excellenter
- excellō
- excelsitās
- excelsus
Descendants
- Catalan: excel·lència
- English: excellence, excellency
- French: excellence
- Galician: excelencia
- German: Exzellenz
- Italian: eccellenza
- Occitan: excelléncia
- Portuguese: excelência
- Romanian: excelență
- Spanish: excelencia
References
- “excellentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excellentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excellentia 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)
- excellentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette