unitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Italic *oinos

Archaic Latin oinos

Latin ūnus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin ūnitās

From ūnus (“one”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ūnitās f (genitive ūnitātis); third declension

1. oneness, unity; state of being one or undivided
2. sameness, uniformity
3. agreement, concord

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūnitās	ūnitātēs
genitive	ūnitātis	ūnitātum
dative	ūnitātī	ūnitātibus
accusative	ūnitātem	ūnitātēs
ablative	ūnitāte	ūnitātibus
vocative	ūnitās	ūnitātēs

Related terms

• ūniō
• ūniter
• ūnus

Descendants

• Catalan: unitat
• Corsican: unità
• → English: unity, unit
• → Old French: unité
  • French: unité
  • → Middle English: unite
    • English: unity
    • Scots: unitie
• → German: Einheit (calque)
• Galician: unidade
• → Irish: aonad (calque)
• Italian: unità
• → Portuguese: unidade
• → Romanian: unitate
• → Old Spanish: unidad, undad
  • Spanish: unidad
• Sicilian: unità, unitati

References

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

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈnʲɪtɐs]
• Rhymes: -ɪtɐs
• Syllabification: u‧ni̇̀‧tas

Noun

uni̇̀tas m (plural uni̇̀tai, feminine uni̇̀tė) stress pattern 2

1. (Catholicism) Uniate, Eastern Catholic

   Hypernym: katali̇̀kas

Declension

Declension of uni̇̀tas

	singular	plural
nominative	uni̇̀tas	uni̇̀tai
genitive	uni̇̀to	uni̇̀tų
dative	uni̇̀tui	uni̇̀tams
accusative	uni̇̀tą	unitùs
instrumental	unitù	uni̇̀tais
locative	unitè	uni̇̀tuose
vocative	uni̇̀te	uni̇̀tai

Further reading

• “unitai”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026
• “unitai”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2026
• “unitai” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija [Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia]