densitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēnsitās.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnˈsitas/
  • Hyphenation: dèn‧si‧tas
  • Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s

Noun

dènsitas (plural densitas-densitas)

  1. density:
    1. (physics) a measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume
      Synonym: massa jenis
      Synonym: ketumpatan (Standard Malay)
    2. the ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed
      Synonyms: kepadatan, kerapatan

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (dense, crowded, frequent) +‎ -tās (forms feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).

Noun

dēnsitās f (genitive dēnsitātis); third declension

  1. thickness
  2. density
  3. abundance

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dēnsitās dēnsitātēs
genitive dēnsitātis dēnsitātum
dative dēnsitātī dēnsitātibus
accusative dēnsitātem dēnsitātēs
ablative dēnsitāte dēnsitātibus
vocative dēnsitās dēnsitātēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: densitat
  • English: density
  • French: densité
  • Galician: densidade
  • Italian: densità
  • Portuguese: densidade
  • Romanian: densitate
  • Sicilian: dinzità, dinzitati
  • Spanish: densidad

References

  • densitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • densitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.