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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cārus (“dear, expensive”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
cāritās f (genitive cāritātis); third declension
- dearness
- costliness, high price
- charity, the attitude of kindness and understanding towards others
- regard, esteem, affection, love
- lack of something, deficiency
- Synonyms: pauperiēs, paupertās, indigentia, pēnūria, dēficientia, dēsīderium, dēfectiō, ūsus, angustia, inopia, necessitās, miseria
- Antonyms: cōpia, abundantia, affluentia, ūbertās, fertilitās, ūber, magnitūdō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “caritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caritas 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)
- caritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona
- Dizionario latino Olivetti
Spanish
Noun
caritas
- plural of carita