communitas

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin commūnitās. Doublet of community.

Noun

communitas (countable and uncountable, plural communitates)

  1. (sociology) An unstructured community of common experience.
    • 2012, Helena Bassil-Morozow, The Trickster in Contemporary Film, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
      Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.
  2. (sociology) The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
    • 1986, Victor W. Turner, The Anthropology of Experience, University of Illinois Press, page 43:
      A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.
    • 1986, Victor W. Turner, Contesting the Sacred, Routledge, published 1991:
      The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.
  • 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 81:
    Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism.

    • Latin

    Etymology

    From commūnis (“common, public”) +‎ -tās.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    commūnitās f (genitive commūnitātis); third declension

    1. a community
    2. public spirit, a sense of duty and willingness to serve one's community

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative commūnitās commūnitātēs
    genitive commūnitātis commūnitātum
    dative commūnitātī commūnitātibus
    accusative commūnitātem commūnitātēs
    ablative commūnitāte commūnitātibus
    vocative commūnitās commūnitātēs

    Descendants

    References

    • “communitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “communitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • communitas 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)
    • communitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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