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Latin
Etymology
distāns + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
distantia f (genitive distantiae); first declension
- distance, remoteness
- difference, diversity
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
distantia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of distāns
References
- “distantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “distantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- distantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.