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Latin
Etymology
From vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
vīlitās f (genitive vīlitātis); third declension
- cheapness, inexpensiveness
- meanness, baseness, worthlessness, vileness
- contempt
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vilitas 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)
- vilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona