divinitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *deywós

Proto-Italic *deiwos

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Proto-Italic *deiwīnos

Latin dīvīnus

Latin -tās

Latin dīvīnitās

From dīvīnus (“divine, of a god”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈwiː.nɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈviː.ni.tas]

Noun

dīvīnitās f (genitive dīvīnitātis); third declension

1. divinity, Godhead, godhood

   Synonym: deitās

   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De natura deorum 1.34
   • 44 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 2.11
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.15 (of the deified Romulus)
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti 97 (of Augustus)
2. (by extension) the power of divination

   Synonym: dīvīnātiō

   • 44 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione 2.58
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 2.59

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīvīnitās	dīvīnitātēs
genitive	dīvīnitātis	dīvīnitātum
dative	dīvīnitātī	dīvīnitātibus
accusative	dīvīnitātem	dīvīnitātēs
ablative	dīvīnitāte	dīvīnitātibus
vocative	dīvīnitās	dīvīnitātēs

Synonyms

• (divinity): deitās
• (divinination): dīvīnātiō

Related terms

• deus
• dīvīnātiō
• dīvīnātor
• dīvīnātrīx
• dīvīnē
• dīvīnitus
• dīvīnō
• dīvīnum
• dīvīnus
• dīvus

Descendants

• Catalan: divinitat
• English: divinity
• French: divinité
• Italian: divinità
• Piedmontese: divinità
• Portuguese: divindade
• Romanian: divinitate
• Spanish: divinidad

References

• “divinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "divinitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “divinitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.