densitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēnsitās.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛnˈsitas/
  • Hyphenation: dèn‧si‧tas
  • Rhymes: -tas, -as, -s

Noun

dènsitas (plural densitas-densitas, first-person possessive densitasku, second-person possessive densitasmu, third-person possessive densitasnya)

  1. density:
    1. (physics) a measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
      Synonym: massa jenis
      Synonym: ketumpatan (Standard Malay)
    2. the ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
      Synonyms: kepadatan, kerapatan

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (“dense, crowded, frequent”) +‎ -tās (forms feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).

Noun

dēnsitās f (genitive dēnsitātis); third declension

  1. thickness
  2. density
  3. abundance

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēnsitās dēnsitātēs
Genitive dēnsitātis dēnsitātum
Dative dēnsitātī dēnsitātibus
Accusative dēnsitātem dēnsitātēs
Ablative dēnsitāte dēnsitātibus
Vocative dēnsitās dēnsitātēs

Descendants

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