vastitas

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Latin

Etymology

vāstus +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

Noun

vāstitās f (genitive vāstitātis); third declension

  1. waste (empty place), desert
  2. desolation, devastation, ruin, destruction
  3. immensity, vastness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vāstitās vāstitātēs
Genitive vāstitātis vāstitātum
Dative vāstitātī vāstitātibus
Accusative vāstitātem vāstitātēs
Ablative vāstitāte vāstitātibus
Vocative vāstitās vāstitātēs

Descendants

  • → Middle English: wastite (calque)
  • → Middle French: vastité
    • →? English: vastity (or directly from Latin)

References

  • “vastitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vastitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vastitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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