quantitas
Latin
Etymology
From quantus (“how much”) + -tās (“-ity”). Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs); compare quālitās.
Noun
quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension
- greatness, extent, quantity, magnitude, size
- sum, amount
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
| Genitive | quantitātis | quantitātum |
| Dative | quantitātī | quantitātibus |
| Accusative | quantitātem | quantitātēs |
| Ablative | quantitāte | quantitātibus |
| Vocative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: quantitat
- → English: quantity
- Old Franco-Provençal: quantiá
- Franco-Provençal: quantiá
- → French: quantité
- → Haitian Creole: kantite
- → Romanian: cantitate
- → Turkish: kantite
- Friulian: cuantitât
- → Italian: quantità
- Piedmontese: quantità
- → Portuguese: quantidade
- → Spanish: cantidad
References
- “quantitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quantitas 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)
- quantitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette