antiquitas

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈtiː.kʷi.taːs/, [än̪ˈt̪iːkʷɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈti.kwi.tas/, [än̪ˈt̪iːkwit̪äs]

Noun

antīquitās f (genitive antīquitātis); third declension

1. antiquity (ancient times)
2. the good old days
3. the ancients
4. age
5. integrity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	antīquitās	antīquitātēs
Genitive	antīquitātis	antīquitātum
Dative	antīquitātī	antīquitātibus
Accusative	antīquitātem	antīquitātēs
Ablative	antīquitāte	antīquitātibus
Vocative	antīquitās	antīquitātēs

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Catalan: antiguitat
  • Italian: antichità
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: antiguedade
    • Galician: antigüidade
    • Portuguese: antiguidade
  • Spanish: antigüedad
• Borrowed:
  • → Old French: antiquitet
    • French: antiquité
      • → Dutch: antiquiteit
      • → Luxembourgish: Antiquitéit
      • → Romanian: antichitate
    • → English: antiquity

References

• “antiquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “antiquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• antiquitas 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)
• antiquitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • Cato's speeches sound archaic: orationes Catonis antiquitatem redolent (Brut. 21. 82)
    
  • to be of noble family: generis antiquitate florere