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Latin
Etymology
From dēclīvis (“sloping downwards”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
dēclīvitās f (genitive dēclīvitātis); third declension
- a declivity; slope or descent
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “declivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “declivitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- declivitas 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)
- declivitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.