puritas
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom pūrus + -tās. Attested from the 3rd century CE.
Noun
editpūritās f (genitive pūritātis); third declension (Late Latin)
- freedom from pollution, purity
- (metonymically) moral purity (freedom from mental or spiritual corruption, from sin)
- per animī nitōrem ac vītae pūritātem
- through the shining dignity of their soul and the purity of their life
- Synonyms: pudīcitia, castitās, innocentia, simplicitās, sincēritās
- (rhetoric) correctness and elegance of speech
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūritās | pūritātēs |
Genitive | pūritātis | pūritātum |
Dative | pūritātī | pūritātibus |
Accusative | pūritātem | pūritātēs |
Ablative | pūritāte | pūritātibus |
Vocative | pūritās | pūritātēs |
Descendants
editDescendants
References
edit- “pūritas” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “pūritas”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 514
Further reading
edit- “puritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- puritas 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)
- puritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)
- purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)