inanitas

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Latin

Etymology 1

inānis (empty, worthless) +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

Noun

inānitās f (genitive inānitātis); third declension

  1. emptiness, empty space
  2. uselessness, inanity
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Italian: inanità
  • Spanish: inanidad

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

inānītās

  1. accusative feminine plural of inānītus

References

  • inanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inanitas 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)