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Latin
Etymology
From dīvīnus (“divine, of a god”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
dīvīnitās f (genitive dīvīnitātis); third declension
- divinity, Godhead, godhood
- (by extension) the power of divination
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “divinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “divinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- divinitas 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)
- divinitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.