Graecitas
Latin
Alternative forms
- Also with initial lower-case g.
Etymology
Graecus (“of or belonging to the Greeks”, “Greek”, “Grecian”, adjective) + -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”, suffix forming nouns)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡrae̯.ki.taːs/, [ˈɡräe̯kɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡre.t͡ʃi.tas/, [ˈɡrɛːt͡ʃit̪äs]
Proper noun
Graecitās f sg (genitive Graecitātis); third declension
- (Late Latin) Greek (the Greek language, familiar to the ancients)
- CE 438, Codex Theodosianus, Book XIV, 9.3.1:
- Habeat igitur audītōrium speciāliter nostrum in hīs prīmum, quōs Rōmānae ēloquentiae doctrīna commendat, ōrātōrēs quidem trēs numerō, decem vērō grammaticōs; in hīs etiam, quī fācundiā graecitātis pollēre nōscuntur, quīnque numerō sint sofistae et grammaticī aequē decem.
- Therefore let our school specially have firstly among these (professors), whom the instruction of Roman eloquence recommends, exactly three orators in number (and) specifically ten grammarians; also among them, who are recognized to prevail in Greek eloquence, let there be five sophists in number and equally ten grammarians.
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Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Graecitās |
| Genitive | Graecitātis |
| Dative | Graecitātī |
| Accusative | Graecitātem |
| Ablative | Graecitāte |
| Vocative | Graecitās |
Descendants
- English: Graecity
- French: grécité
- German: Gräzität
- Italian: grecità
- Portuguese: grecidade
References
- “Graecĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- GRÆCITAS 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)
- græcĭtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 719/2
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “graecitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 474/2