subtilitas

Latin

Etymology

From subtīlis +‎ -tas.

Noun

subtīlitās f (genitive subtīlitātis); third declension

  1. fineness, thinness, slenderness, minuteness
  2. keenness, acuteness
  3. exactness, subtlety

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative subtīlitās subtīlitātēs
genitive subtīlitātis subtīlitātum
dative subtīlitātī subtīlitātibus
accusative subtīlitātem subtīlitātēs
ablative subtīlitāte subtīlitātibus
vocative subtīlitās subtīlitātēs

Descendants

  • → English: subtility
  • → French: subtilité
  • Old French: sotileté
  • Italian: sottilità
  • German: Subtilität

Further reading

  • “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "subtilitas", 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)
  • subtilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)
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