-itas

See also: itas and -itás

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -itās.

Noun

-itas

1. -ity

Usage notes

The suffix displaced earlier forms of -itet, -iteit and -itit from Dutch -iteit, Dutch -teit.

Alternative forms

• -tas
• -iti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Synonyms

• ke- -an

Derived terms

Indonesian terms suffixed with -itas

Further reading

• “-itas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology 1

First from Proto-Italic *-itāts and *-otāts, i.e. -tās added to i-stems or o-stems, later used freely. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.taːs/, [ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.tas/, [it̪äs] (stressed on the antepenult)

Suffix

-itās f (genitive -itātis); third declension

1. Alternative form of -tās

   ‎amārus (“bitter, pungent”) + ‎-itas → ‎amāritās (“bitterness”)

   ‎ūnus (“one”) + ‎-itas → ‎ūnitās (“unity, oneness”)

   ‎cīvis (“citizen”) + ‎-itas → ‎cīvitās (“citizenship”)

   ‎fidēlis (“faithful”) + ‎-itas → ‎fidēlitās (“fidelity, faithfulness”)

   ‎trīni (“three each”) + ‎-itas → ‎trīnitās (“trinity, threeness”)

   ‎vēlōx (“swift, quick”) + ‎-itas → ‎vēlōcitās (“velocity, swiftness”)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-itās	-itātēs
Genitive	-itātis	-itātum
Dative	-itātī	-itātibus
Accusative	-itātem	-itātēs
Ablative	-itāte	-itātibus
Vocative	-itās	-itātēs

Synonyms

• (-ness, -ity): -ia, -itia, -itiēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: -ãtati, -tati
• Asturian: -idá
• → Basque: -itate
• Catalan: -itat, -tat
• → Danish: -itet
• → Dutch: -iteit, -teit
  • → Indonesian: -itet
• French: -ité, -eté, -té
  • → English: -ity, -ty
    • → Malay: -iti
  • → Turkish: -ite
• Friulian: -itât, -tât
• → German: -ität
• → Indonesian: -itas
• Italian: -ità, -tà, -itade, -tade
• → Latvian: -itāte
• → Norwegian Bokmål: -itet
• → Bulgarian: -итет (-itet)
• Occitan: -itat, -ita
• Portuguese: -idade, -dade
• Romanian: -itate, -ătate, -tate
• Sicilian: -ità, -itati
• Spanish: -idad, -edad, -tad
• → Swedish: -itet

Etymology 2

See -ītēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.taːs/, [ˈiːt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tas/, [ˈiːt̪äs]

Suffix

-ītās

1. accusative plural of -ītēs