planities

planities

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-no-s
Proto-Italic *plānos
Latin plānus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin -itia
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Latin -iēs
blend
Latin -itiēs
Latin plānitiēs

    From plānus (“flat, level”) + -itiēs.

    Noun

    plānitiēs f (genitive plānitiēī); fifth declension

    1. plain, plateau
    2. flatness

    Declension

    Fifth-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative plānitiēs plānitiēs
    genitive plānitiēī plānitiērum
    dative plānitiēī plānitiēbus
    accusative plānitiem plānitiēs
    ablative plānitiē plānitiēbus
    vocative plānitiēs plānitiēs

    Descendants

    • Italian: planizie, planizia
    • Catalan: planícia
    • Portuguese: planície
    • Spanish: planicie

    References

    • “planities”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “planities”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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