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Latin
Etymology
ūtilis + -tās
Noun
ūtilitās f (genitive ūtilitātis); third declension
- usefulness, utility
- expediency
- advantage
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- utilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- untold advantages arise from a thing: utilitas efflorescit ex aliqua re
- to be serviceable: utilitatem afferre, praebere
- to considerably (in no way) further the common good: multum (nihil) ad communem utilitatem afferre
- to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
- utilitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016