prolixitas

Latin

Etymology

From prōlixus (“extended, held forth”) +‎ -tās (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”), from prō (“for, forth”) + laxus (“lax, yielding”).

Noun

prōlixitās f (genitive prōlixitātis); third declension

1. great extent, long duration
2. excess, especially (of speech) prolixity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōlixitās	prōlixitātēs
Genitive	prōlixitātis	prōlixitātum
Dative	prōlixitātī	prōlixitātibus
Accusative	prōlixitātem	prōlixitātēs
Ablative	prōlixitāte	prōlixitātibus
Vocative	prōlixitās	prōlixitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: prolixitat
• Galician: prolixidade
• Italian: prolissità
• Occitan: prolixitat
• Old French: prolixite
  • Middle French:
    • French: prolixité
  • → Middle English:
    • English: prolixity
• Portuguese: prolixidade
• Spanish: prolijidad

References

• “prolixitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prolixitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• prolixitas 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)