humilitas

Latin

From humilis (“humble”) +‎ -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”).

humilitās f (genitive humilitātis); third declension

insignificance, lowliness, unimportance
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas.1.46–48:
  Magnificat anima mea Dominum, et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo, quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae.
  My soul does magnify the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour, because he has regarded the lowliness of his handmaid.
degradation, debasement, humiliation
submissiveness, obedience
(post-Classical) humility, modesty
- c. 420 CE, John Cassian, De institutis coenobiorum 12.31:
  Humilitas vero nullatenus poterit absque nuditate conquiri.
  Humility, indeed, can in no way be acquired without nakedness.

>? Neapolitan: omertà, umertà
- →? Sicilian: umirtà
- → Italian: omertà
  - → Dutch: omerta
  - → English: omertà
→ Proto-Brythonic: *ʉβ̃ɨldọd (see there for further descendants)
→ Catalan: humilitat
→ Old Franco-Provençal: humilitá
- Franco-Provençal: humilitá
→ Old French: umilitet, umilite
- Middle French: humilité
  - French: humilité
- → Middle English: humilite
  - English: humility
→ Old Irish: umaldóit
- Middle Irish: umallóit
  - Irish: umhlóid
→ Italian: umiltà
→ Occitan: umilitat
→ Piedmontese: umiltà
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: humildade (semi-learned)
- Galician: humildade
- Portuguese: humildade
→ Romanian: umilitate
→ Old Spanish: humildat (semi-learned)
- Spanish: humildad
→ Proto-Brythonic: *uβ̃ɨldọd
- Breton: uvelded
- Old Welsh: uvyltavd
  - Middle Welsh: uvylltawd
    - Welsh: ufylltod

“humilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“humilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
humilitas 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)
humilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Souter, Alexander (1949) “humilitas”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎^[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 177
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “humilitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 507