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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom (whence also aevum) + *-tāts (whence also -tās), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.
By surface analysis, aevum + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
aevitās f (genitive aevitātis); third declension
- Archaic form of aetās (“lifetime, age”).
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aevitas 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)
- aevitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.