vicinitas

vicinitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin vīcīnus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin vīcīnitās

    From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) + -tās.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vīcīnitās f (genitive vīcīnitātis); third declension

    1. neighborhood
    2. nearness, proximity, vicinity
      Synonyms: propinquitās, contiguitās, adfīnitās
      Antonym: longinquitās

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative vīcīnitās vīcīnitātēs
    genitive vīcīnitātis vīcīnitātum
    dative vīcīnitātī vīcīnitātibus
    accusative vīcīnitātem vīcīnitātēs
    ablative vīcīnitāte vīcīnitātibus
    vocative vīcīnitās vīcīnitātēs

    Descendants

    • Balkan Romance:
      • Aromanian: vitsinãtati, vitsinãtate
      • Romanian: vecinătate
    • Italo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Aragonese: vezindat
      • Asturian: vecindá, vicindá
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: vezindade (rare, possibly borrowed from Spanish)
        • Portuguese: vizindade (rare)
      • Old Spanish: vezindat, vezindad
    • Borrowings:

    References

    • “vicinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “vicinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “vicinitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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