quantitas

Latin

Etymology

From quantus (“how much”) +‎ -tās. Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs); compare quālitās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷan.tɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷan.ti.tas]

Noun

quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension

1. greatness; extent; quantity; magnitude; size
2. sum; amount

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quantitās	quantitātēs
genitive	quantitātis	quantitātum
dative	quantitātī	quantitātibus
accusative	quantitātem	quantitātēs
ablative	quantitāte	quantitātibus
vocative	quantitās	quantitātēs

Derived terms

• quantitātīvus

Descendants

• → Catalan: quantitat
• → English: quantity
  • → Malay: kuantiti
• Old Franco-Provençal: quantiá
  • Franco-Provençal: quantiá
• → French: quantité
  • → Haitian Creole: kantite
  • → Romanian: cantitate
  • → Turkish: kantite
• Friulian: cuantitât
• → Italian: quantità
• Indonesian: kuantitas
• Piedmontese: quantità
• → Polish: ilość (calque)
  • → Kashubian: jilosc
  • → Old Ruthenian: ко́лкость (kólkostʹ) (calque)
    • Ukrainian: кі́лькість (kílʹkistʹ)
• → Portuguese: quantidade
• → Spanish: cantidad

References

• “quantitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "quantitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quantitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.