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Latin
Etymology
From rārus (“loose, sparse, rare”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
rāritās f (genitive rāritātis); third declension
- looseness, thinness, the state of being loose, not dense
- rarity, scarcity, moderation
- a thing that is rare, a rarity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “raritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “raritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- raritas 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)
- raritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Adjective
raritas f pl
- feminine plural of rarito