vetustas

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

vetustās f (genitive vetustātis); third declension

  1. old age
  2. long existence or duration
  3. antiquity

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vetustās vetustātēs
genitive vetustātis vetustātum
dative vetustātī vetustātibus
accusative vetustātem vetustātēs
ablative vetustāte vetustātibus
vocative vetustās vetustātēs

Descendants

Adjective

vetustās

  1. accusative feminine plural of vetustus

References

  • 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)

Portuguese

Adjective

vetustas

  1. Feminine plural of adjective vetusto.

Spanish

Adjective

vetustas

  1. Feminine plural of adjective vetusto.
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