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Latin
Etymology
From opācus (“darkened”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
opācitās f (genitive opācitātis); third declension
- shadiness, shade
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “opacitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opacitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opacitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.