simplicitas
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From simplex, simplicis + -tās.
Noun
simplicitās f (genitive simplicitātis); third declension
- simplicity
- plainness, frankness, openness
- innocence, honesty, candor, integrity
- c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.28.6:
- Melior est pauper ambulāns in simplicitāte, suā quam dīves prāvīs itineribus.
- Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways.
- Melior est pauper ambulāns in simplicitāte, suā quam dīves prāvīs itineribus.
- directness, ingenuousness, naturalness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | simplicitās | simplicitātēs |
| genitive | simplicitātis | simplicitātum |
| dative | simplicitātī | simplicitātibus |
| accusative | simplicitātem | simplicitātēs |
| ablative | simplicitāte | simplicitātibus |
| vocative | simplicitās | simplicitātēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: simplicitat
- → French: simplicité
- → Galician: simplicidade
- → German: Simplizität
- → Italian: semplicità
- → Portuguese: simplicidade
- → Romanian: simplicitate
- → Sicilian: simpricità
- → Spanish: simplicidad
References
- “simplicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “simplicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "simplicitas", 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)
- “simplicitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.