pluralitas

Latin

Etymology

plūrālis +‎ -tās, from plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“fill”).

Noun

plūrālitās f (genitive plūrālitātis); third declension

plurality

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plūrālitās	plūrālitātēs
Genitive	plūrālitātis	plūrālitātum
Dative	plūrālitātī	plūrālitātibus
Accusative	plūrālitātem	plūrālitātēs
Ablative	plūrālitāte	plūrālitātibus
Vocative	plūrālitās	plūrālitātēs

Descendants

→ Galician: pluralidade
→ Italian: pluralità
→ Old French: pluralité
- → Middle English: pluralite
  - English: plurality
- French: pluralité
→ Portuguese: pluralidade
→ Spanish: pluralidad

Further reading

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

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