celeritas

From celer (“fast, swift”) + -tās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɛˈɫɛ.rɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃeˈlɛː.ri.tas]

celeritās f (genitive celeritātis); third declension

1. quickness, speed, swiftness, haste, celerity

Third-declension noun.

• (quickness, swiftness): vēlōcitās

• celer
• celeriter
• celerō

• Catalan: celeritat
• English: celerity
• French: célérité
• Italian: celerità
• Portuguese: celeridade
• Romanian: celeritate
• Spanish: celeridad

• “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “celeritas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: praecurrere aliquem (celeritate)
    
  • dulness of intellect: ingenii tarditas (opp. celeritas)
    
  • vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
    
  • readiness in debate, in repartee: celeritas in respondendo