divitiae

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Latin

Etymology

From dīves (“rich”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dīvitiae f pl (genitive dīvitiārum); first declension

  1. (plural only) riches, wealth, affluence
    Synonyms: opulentia, affluentia
    Antonyms: pauperiēs, paupertās, indigentia, pēnūria, miseria, angustia, inopia, dēsīderium, necessitās
    • 524 CE, Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy 3.2p:
      aliī summum bonum esse nihilō indigēre crēdentēs ut dīvitiīs affluant ēlabōrant.
      Some, thinking that the greatest good is to lack nothing, belabour to abound in riches.
  2. (plural only) a fortune

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative dīvitiae
genitive dīvitiārum
dative dīvitiīs
accusative dīvitiās
ablative dīvitiīs
vocative dīvitiae

References

  • “divitiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “divitiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • divitiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a full and copious style of speech: ubertas (not divitiae) et copia orationis
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