-tas

See also: tas, Tas, TAS, tās, tås, taş, t'as, Tas., taas, and tAS

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch -teit influenced by Latin -tās

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ-tas/
• Hyphenation: tas
• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/, [ˈt̪as]

Synonyms

Synonym: ke- -an

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /taːs/, [t̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tas/, [t̪äs]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts, whence also Attic Greek -της (-tēs), Doric Greek -τᾱς (-tās), and Sanskrit -ताति (-tāti). See also -tūs.

Suffix

-tās f (genitive -tātis); third declension

1. -ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship; Used to form feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being.

Usage notes

The suffix -tās is added to an adjective (or sometimes a noun) to form an abstract third declension feminine noun indicating a state or condition.

Examples:

‎potis (“able”) + ‎-tas → ‎potestās (“ability”)

‎difficilis (“difficult, troublesome”) + ‎-tas → ‎difficultās (“difficulty, trouble”)

‎līber (“free”) + ‎-tas → ‎lībertās (“liberty, freedom”)

‎aevum (“infinite time”) + ‎-tas → ‎aetās (“lifetime”)

It has two allomorphs:

-itās

‎viduus + ‎-tas → ‎viduitās (“widowhood”)

‎magnanimus + ‎-tas → ‎magnanimitās (“magnanimity”)

‎alacer + ‎-tas → ‎alacritās (“cheerfulness”)

-etās

‎prōprius + ‎-tas → ‎proprietās (“quality, property”)

‎medius + ‎-tas → ‎medietās (“midpoint”)

‎satis + ‎-tas → ‎satietās (“sufficiency”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-tās	-tātēs
Genitive	-tātis	-tātum
Dative	-tātī	-tātibus
Accusative	-tātem	-tātēs
Ablative	-tāte	-tātibus
Vocative	-tās	-tātēs

Synonyms

• (-ty, -ness): -ia, -itia, -tūdō

Descendants

• Aragonese: -dat
• Aromanian: -tati
• Asturian: -dá
• Basque: -tate
• Catalan: -tat
• French: -té
  • English: -ty
• Friulian: -tât
• German: -tät
• Indonesian: -tas (rarer, -ta)
• Italian: -ità
• Occitan: -tat (rarer, -ta)
• Portuguese: -dade, -tade
• Romanian: -tate
• Sicilian: -tà, -tati
• Old Spanish: -dat, -tat
  • Spanish: -dad, -tad

See also

Latin terms suffixed with -tas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *-tā, from Proto-Indo-European *-tweh₂.

Suffix

-tās

1. feminine accusative plural of -tus