affabilitas

• adfābilitās

From affābilis (“affable, courteous”) +‎ -tās, from affor (“speak to, address”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /af.faːˈbi.li.taːs/, [äfːäːˈbɪlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /af.faˈbi.li.tas/, [äfːäˈbiːlit̪äs]

affābilitās f (genitive affābilitātis); third declension

1. Affability, courtesy, kindness.
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 61:

     Niceros delectatus affabilitate amici: "Omne me, inquit, lucrum transeat, nisi iam dudum gaudimonio dissilio, quod te talem video. Itaque hilaria mera sint, etsi timeo istos scolasticos ne me rideant. Viderint: narrabo tamen, quid enim mihi aufert, qui ridet? Satius est rideri quam derideri."

     Niceros was delighted by his friend's amiability and said, “May I never turn another penny if I am not ready to burst with joy at seeing you in such a good humour. Well, it shall be pure fun then, though I am afraid your clever friends will laugh at me. Still, let them; I will tell my story; what harm does a man's laugh do me? Being laughed at is more satisfactory than being sneered at.”

Third-declension noun.

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