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Latin
Etymology
From subtīlis + -tas.
Noun
subtīlitās f (genitive subtīlitātis); third declension
- fineness, thinness, slenderness, minuteness
- keenness, acuteness
- exactness, subtlety
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Further reading
- “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subtilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subtilitas 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)
- subtilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- dialectical nicety: disserendi subtilitas (De Or. 1. 1. 68)