vilitas

From vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive”) +‎ -tās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.lɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.li.t̪as]

vīlitās f (genitive vīlitātis); third declension

1. cheapness, inexpensiveness
2. meanness, baseness, worthlessness, vileness
3. contempt

Third-declension noun.

• English: vility
• French: vilité
• Italian: viltà

• “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vilitas", 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)
• vilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona