propinquitas
Latin
Etymology
From propinquus (“near; related”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [prɔˈpɪŋ.kʷɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [proˈpiŋ.kʷi.t̪as]
Noun
propinquitās f (genitive propinquitātis); third declension
- (in space or time) nearness, propinquity, proximity
- Synonyms: contiguitās, vīcīnitās, adfīnitās
- Antonym: longinquitās
- (figuratively, of persons) connection, affinity, kindred, relationship
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | propinquitās | propinquitātēs |
| genitive | propinquitātis | propinquitātum |
| dative | propinquitātī | propinquitātibus |
| accusative | propinquitātem | propinquitātēs |
| ablative | propinquitāte | propinquitātibus |
| vocative | propinquitās | propinquitātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Old French: propinquite
- Middle French: propinquité
- → Middle English: propinquite, propinquitee, propinquyte, propynqwyte
- English: propinquity
- → Middle English: propinquite, propinquitee, propinquyte, propynqwyte
- Middle French: propinquité
- → Italian: propinquità
- → Portuguese: propinquidade
- → Spanish: propincuidad
References
- “propinquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propinquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "propinquitas", 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)
- propinquitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.