velocitas
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vēlōx (“swift, quick”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯eːˈloː.ki.taːs/, [u̯eːˈɫ̪oːkɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈlo.t͡ʃi.tas/, [veˈlɔːt͡ʃit̪äs]
Noun
[edit]vēlōcitās f (genitive vēlōcitātis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vēlōcitās | vēlōcitātēs |
| genitive | vēlōcitātis | vēlōcitātum |
| dative | vēlōcitātī | vēlōcitātibus |
| accusative | vēlōcitātem | vēlōcitātēs |
| ablative | vēlōcitāte | vēlōcitātibus |
| vocative | vēlōcitās | vēlōcitātēs |
Synonyms
[edit]- (speed, swiftness): celeritās
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: velocitat
- English: velocity
- French: vélocité
- Galician: velocidade
- Italian: velocità
- Portuguese: velocidade
- Romanian: velocitate
- Sicilian: vilucità, vilucitati
- Spanish: velocidad
- Swedish: velocitet
References
[edit]- “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.