quantitas
Latin
Etymology
From quantus (“how much”) + -tās. Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs); compare quālitās.
Noun
quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
| genitive | quantitātis | quantitātum |
| dative | quantitātī | quantitātibus |
| accusative | quantitātem | quantitātēs |
| ablative | quantitāte | quantitātibus |
| vocative | quantitās | quantitātēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: quantitat
- → English: quantity
- → Malay: kuantiti
- Old Franco-Provençal: quantiá
- Franco-Provençal: quantiá
- → French: quantité
- Friulian: cuantitât
- → Italian: quantità
- Indonesian: kuantitas
- Piedmontese: quantità
- → Polish: ilość (calque)
- → Kashubian: jilosc
- → Old Ruthenian: ко́лкость (kólkostʹ) (calque)
- Ukrainian: кі́лькість (kílʹkistʹ)
- → Portuguese: quantidade
- → Spanish: cantidad
References
- “quantitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "quantitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “quantitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.