declivitas

Latin

Etymology

From dēclīvis (“sloping downwards”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

dēclīvitās f (genitive dēclīvitātis); third declension

  1. a declivity; slope or descent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēclīvitās dēclīvitātēs
Genitive dēclīvitātis dēclīvitātum
Dative dēclīvitātī dēclīvitātibus
Accusative dēclīvitātem dēclīvitātēs
Ablative dēclīvitāte dēclīvitātibus
Vocative dēclīvitās dēclīvitātēs

Descendants
  • Catalan: declivitat
  • English: declivity
  • French: déclivité
  • Italian: declività
  • Portuguese: declividade
  • Spanish: declividad

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