aciditas

See also: aciditás

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *akēō

Latin aceō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin acidus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin aciditās

From acidus (“sour, acid, tart”) + -tās (“-ness, -ity”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkɪ.dɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈt͡ʃiː.di.tas]

Noun

aciditās f (genitive aciditātis); third declension

1. sourness, acidity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aciditās	aciditātēs
genitive	aciditātis	aciditātum
dative	aciditātī	aciditātibus
accusative	aciditātem	aciditātēs
ablative	aciditāte	aciditātibus
vocative	aciditās	aciditātēs

Descendants

• French: acidité
  • → Romanian: aciditate
  • → Persian: اسیدیته (asidite)
  • → Turkish: asidite
• Italian: acidità
• Portuguese: acididade
• → English: acidity
• → Albanian: aciditet

References

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