Latin edit

Etymology edit

From subtīlis +‎ -tas.

Noun edit

subtīlitās f (genitive subtīlitātis); third declension

  1. fineness, thinness, slenderness, minuteness
  2. keenness, acuteness
  3. exactness, subtlety

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative subtīlitās subtīlitātēs
Genitive subtīlitātis subtīlitātum
Dative subtīlitātī subtīlitātibus
Accusative subtīlitātem subtīlitātēs
Ablative subtīlitāte subtīlitātibus
Vocative subtīlitās subtīlitātēs

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • subtilitas 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)
  • subtilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)