resistentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin resistent-

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

▲

Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)influ.

Latin -ia

Latin resistentia

From resistent- + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.sɪsˈtɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.s̬isˈtɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

resistentia f (genitive resistentiae); first declension

1. resistance, opposition

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	resistentia	resistentiae
genitive	resistentiae	resistentiārum
dative	resistentiae	resistentiīs
accusative	resistentiam	resistentiās
ablative	resistentiā	resistentiīs
vocative	resistentia	resistentiae

Descendants

• Asturian: resistencia
• Catalan: resistència
• French: résistance
• Galician: resistencia
• Italian: resistenza
• Piedmontese: resistensa
• Portuguese: resistência
• Sicilian: risistenza
• Spanish: resistencia

Participle

resistentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of resistēns

References

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