vetustas

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Latin

Etymology

From vetus (“old”) +‎ -tās (used to form nouns indicating a state of being).

Pronunciation

Noun

vetustās f (genitive vetustātis); third declension

  1. old age
  2. long existence or duration
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.129–132:
      praestitibus Maiae Laribus vīdēre Kalendae
      āram cōnstituī parvaque signa deum.
      vōverat illa quidem Curius: sed multa vetustās
      dēstruit, et saxō longa senecta nocet
      The Calends of May beheld an altar erected to the Guardian Lares, and little statues of the gods. Indeed, Curius had dedicated them; but a long existence destroys many , and prolonged age is damaging to stone.
      (See Manius Curius Dentatus.)
  3. antiquity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vetustās vetustātēs
genitive vetustātis vetustātum
dative vetustātī vetustātibus
accusative vetustātem vetustātēs
ablative vetustāte vetustātibus
vocative vetustās vetustātēs

Descendants

  • → English: vetustity
  • → French: vétusté
  • → Italian: vetustà

Adjective

vetustās

  1. accusative feminine plural of vetustus

References

  • “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vetustas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be very old friends: vetustate amicitiae coniunctum esse
    • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)

Portuguese

Adjective

vetustas

  1. feminine plural of vetusto

Spanish

Adjective

vetustas

  1. feminine plural of vetusto
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