quantitas

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quantitās	quantitātēs
Genitive	quantitātis	quantitātum
Dative	quantitātī	quantitātibus
Accusative	quantitātem	quantitātēs
Ablative	quantitāte	quantitātibus
Vocative	quantitās	quantitātēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: quantitat
• → English: quantity
• Old Franco-Provençal: quantiá
  • Franco-Provençal: quantiá
• → French: quantité
  • → Haitian Creole: kantite
  • → Romanian: cantitate
  • → Turkish: kantite
• Friulian: cuantitât
• → Italian: quantità
• Piedmontese: quantità
• → 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’s 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.