velocitas

Latin

Etymology

From vēlōx (“swift, quick”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈɫoː.kɪ.taːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈlɔː.t͡ʃi.t̪as]

Noun

vēlōcitās f (genitive vēlōcitātis); third declension

speed, velocity, swiftness, rapidity, fleetness
Synonym: festīnātiō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vēlōcitās	vēlōcitātēs
genitive	vēlōcitātis	vēlōcitātum
dative	vēlōcitātī	vēlōcitātibus
accusative	vēlōcitātem	vēlōcitātēs
ablative	vēlōcitāte	vēlōcitātibus
vocative	vēlōcitās	vēlōcitātēs

Synonyms

(speed, swiftness): celeritās

Related terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: velocitat
→ English: velocity
→ French: vélocité
→ Galician: velocidade
→ Italian: velocità
→ Portuguese: velocidade
→ Romanian: velocitate
→ Sicilian: vilucità, vilucitati
→ Spanish: velocidad
→ Swedish: velocitet

References

“velocitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“velocitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
velocitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.