prolixitas
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From prōlixus (“extended, held forth”) + -tās (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”), from prō (“for, forth”) + laxus (“lax, yielding”).
Noun edit
prōlixitās f (genitive prōlixitātis); third declension
- great extent, long duration
- excess, especially (of speech) prolixity
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prōlixitās | prōlixitātēs |
| Genitive | prōlixitātis | prōlixitātum |
| Dative | prōlixitātī | prōlixitātibus |
| Accusative | prōlixitātem | prōlixitātēs |
| Ablative | prōlixitāte | prōlixitātibus |
| Vocative | prōlixitās | prōlixitātēs |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: prolixitat
- Galician: prolixidade
- Italian: prolissità
- Occitan: prolixitat
- Old French: prolixite
- Portuguese: prolixidade
- Spanish: prolijidad
References edit
- “prolixitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prolixitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- prolixitas 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)