communitas
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin commūnitās. Doublet of community.
Noun edit
communitas (countable and uncountable, plural communitates)
- (sociology) An unstructured community of common experience.
- 2012, Helena Bassil-Morozow, The Trickster in Contemporary Film, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
- Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.
- (sociology) The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
- 1986, Victor W. Turner, The Anthropology of Experience, University of Illinois Press, page 43:
- A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.
- 1986, Victor W. Turner, Contesting the Sacred, Routledge, published 1991:
- The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.
- [2004, Kate Fox, “Rules of Sex”, in Watching the English, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 330:
- Their focus is on group bonding, and the euphoric, almost transcendental experience of becoming one with the music and the crowd (which sounds like a version of what the anthropologist Victor Turner called ‘communitas’—an intense, intimate, liberating kind of group bonding, experienced only in ‘liminal’ states).]
- 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 81:
- Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From commūnis (“common, public”) + -tās.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈmuː.ni.taːs/, [kɔmˈmuːnɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈmu.ni.tas/, [komˈmuːnit̪äs]
Noun edit
commūnitās f (genitive commūnitātis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | commūnitās | commūnitātēs |
Genitive | commūnitātis | commūnitātum |
Dative | commūnitātī | commūnitātibus |
Accusative | commūnitātem | commūnitātēs |
Ablative | commūnitāte | commūnitātibus |
Vocative | commūnitās | commūnitātēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: comunitat
- English: community, communitas
- French: communauté
- Galician: comunidade
- Italian: comunità
- Occitan: comunitat
- Portuguese: comunidade
- Romanian: comunitate
- Sicilian: cumunità
- Spanish: comunidad
References edit
- “communitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “communitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- communitas 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)
- communitas in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016