humanitāte
See also: humanitate and humanitātē
Latvian
Etymology
From humāns (“humane, compassionate”) + -itāte. Probably not derived as such in Latvian, but borrowed and adapted from another Europen language.
Pronunciation
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Noun
humanitāte f (5th declension)
- humaneness, humanity, compassion (the quality of one who is humane, compassionate)
- humanitāte nevar būt tur, kur nav cīņas par cilvēka labklājību, par viņa vispusīgu attīstību ― compassion cannot be there where there is no struggle for people's well-being, for their comprehensive development
- viens no tādiem kardinālajiem literatūras jautājumiem ir jautājums par humanitāti, par cilvēciskumu un tā pamatiem ― one of these cardinal questions of literature is the question of humanity, of compassion and its foundations
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | humanitāte | — |
| genitive | humanitātes | — |
| dative | humanitātei | — |
| accusative | humanitāti | — |
| instrumental | humanitāti | — |
| locative | humanitātē | — |
| vocative | humanitāte | — |