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Latin
Etymology
From celer (“fast, swift”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
celeritās f (genitive celeritātis); third declension
- quickness, speed, swiftness, haste, celerity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- celeritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to overtake and pass some one: praecurrere aliquem (celeritate)
- dulness of intellect: ingenii tarditas (opp. celeritas)
- vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
- readiness in debate, in repartee: celeritas in respondendo