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Latin
- Also with initial lower-case g.
Etymology
Graecus (“of or belonging to the Greeks”, “Greek”, “Grecian”, adjective) + -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”, suffix forming nouns)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Graecitās f sg (genitive Graecitātis); third declension
- (Late Latin) Greek (the Greek language, familiar to the ancients)
438 CE, Codex Theodosianus, Book XIV, 9.3.1:Habeat igitur audītōrium speciāliter nostrum in hīs prīmum, quōs Rōmānae ēloquentiae doctrīna commendat, ōrātōrēs quidem trēs numerō, decem vērō grammaticōs; in hīs etiam, quī fācundiā graecitātis pollēre nōscuntur, quīnque numerō sint sofistae et grammaticī aequē decem.- Therefore let our school specially have firstly among these (professors), whom the instruction of Roman eloquence recommends, exactly three orators in number (and) specifically ten grammarians; also among them, who are recognized to prevail in Greek eloquence, let there be five sophists in number and equally ten grammarians.
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Graecĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- GRÆCITAS 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)
- græcĭtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 719/2.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “graecitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 474/2