antiquitas
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈtiː.kʷi.taːs/, [än̪ˈt̪iːkʷɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈti.kwi.tas/, [än̪ˈt̪iːkwit̪äs]
Noun
antīquitās f (genitive antīquitātis); third declension
- antiquity (ancient times)
- the good old days
- the ancients
- age
- integrity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | antīquitās | antīquitātēs |
| Genitive | antīquitātis | antīquitātum |
| Dative | antīquitātī | antīquitātibus |
| Accusative | antīquitātem | antīquitātēs |
| Ablative | antīquitāte | antīquitātibus |
| Vocative | antīquitās | antīquitātēs |
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Catalan: antiguitat
- Italian: antichità
- Old Portuguese: antiguedade
- Galician: antigüidade
- Portuguese: antiguidade
- Spanish: antigüedad
- Borrowed:
- → Old French: antiquitet
- French: antiquité
- → Dutch: antiquiteit
- → Luxembourgish: Antiquitéit
- → Romanian: antichitate
- → English: antiquity
- French: antiquité
- → Old French: antiquitet
References
- “antiquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “antiquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- antiquitas 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)
- antiquitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
- to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
- Cato's speeches sound archaic: orationes Catonis antiquitatem redolent (Brut. 21. 82)
- to be of noble family: generis antiquitate florere
- ancient history: antiquitatis memoria