vetustas

From vetus (“old”) +‎ -tās (used to form nouns indicating a state of being).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈtus.taːs/, [u̯ɛˈt̪ʊs̠t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈtus.tas/, [veˈt̪ust̪äs]

vetustās f (genitive vetustātis); third declension

1. old age
2. long existence or duration
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.129–132:

     praestitibus Maiae Laribus vīdēre Kalendae
     āram cōnstituī parvaque signa deum.
     vōverat illa quidem Curius: sed multa vetustās
     dēstruit, et saxō longa senecta nocet

     The Calends of May beheld an altar erected to the Guardian Lares, and little statues of the gods. Indeed, Curius had dedicated them; but a long existence destroys many [things], and prolonged age is damaging to stone.
     (See Manius Curius Dentatus.)

3. antiquity

Third-declension noun.

• → English: vetustity
• → French: vétusté
• → Italian: vetustà

vetustās

1. accusative feminine plural of vetustus

• “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vetustas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vetustas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be very old friends: vetustate amicitiae coniunctum esse
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    

vetustas

1. feminine plural of vetusto

vetustas

1. feminine plural of vetusto