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Italian
Etymology
From earlier Italian -itade ~ -itate, from Latin -itātem.[1]
Suffix
-ità f (noun-forming suffix, invariable)
- used to form abstract nouns that correspond to English words ending in -ity or -ness
Usage notes
- All are feminine and invariant.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 101
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