puritas

Latin

Etymology

From pūrus +‎ -tās. Attested from the 3rd century CE.

Noun

pūritās f (genitive pūritātis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. freedom from pollution, purity

   Synonyms: munditia, pūritia

2. (metonymically) moral purity (freedom from mental or spiritual corruption, from sin)
   • per animī nitōrem ac vītae pūritātem

     through the shining dignity of their soul and the purity of their life

   1. chastity, innocence
   2. honesty, openness

   Synonyms: pudīcitia, castitās, innocentia, simplicitās, sincēritās

3. (rhetoric) correctness and elegance of speech

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūritās	pūritātēs
Genitive	pūritātis	pūritātum
Dative	pūritātī	pūritātibus
Accusative	pūritātem	pūritātēs
Ablative	pūritāte	pūritātibus
Vocative	pūritās	pūritātēs

Descendants

Descendants of puritas in other languages

• Old French: purté
  • French: pureté
• Provençal: purdà
• Old Galician-Portuguese: puredad
• Old Spanish: poredad
• → English: purity
• → Italian: purità
• → Portuguese: puridade
• → Romanian: puritate
• → Spanish: puridad

References

• “pūritas” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “pūritas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 514

Further reading

• “puritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puritas 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)
• puritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)