pestilentia
Latin
Etymology
From pestilentus (“pestilent”) + -ia.
Noun
pestilentia f (genitive pestilentiae); first declension
- infectious or contagious disease; plague, pestilence
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pestilentia | pestilentiae |
| Genitive | pestilentiae | pestilentiārum |
| Dative | pestilentiae | pestilentiīs |
| Accusative | pestilentiam | pestilentiās |
| Ablative | pestilentiā | pestilentiīs |
| Vocative | pestilentia | pestilentiae |
Descendants
- → Catalan: pestilència
- → Old French: pestilence
- → English: pestilence
- French: pestilence
- Italian: pestilenza
- Romanian: pestilență
- Portuguese: pestilência
- Spanish: pestilencia
Adjective
pestilentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pestilēns
References
- “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pestilentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
- (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit