sanctitas

Latin

Etymology

From sānctus +‎ -tās.

Noun

sānctitās f (genitive sānctitātis); third declension

  1. inviolability, sacredness, sanctity
  2. holiness, virtue, piety, integrity, honour, chastity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sānctitās sānctitātēs
Genitive sānctitātis sānctitātum
Dative sānctitātī sānctitātibus
Accusative sānctitātem sānctitātēs
Ablative sānctitāte sānctitātibus
Vocative sānctitās sānctitātēs

Descendants
  • Old Francoprovençal: saintiá
  • Italian: santità
  • Old French: sancteté
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: santidade
  • Old Spanish: sanctidat
  • → Romanian: sfințitate (calque)

References
  • “sanctitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sanctitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sanctitas 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)
  • sanctitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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