aetas

• ētās (medieval)

Syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom ((whence also aevum) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“lifetime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“vital energy, life”)) + *-tāts (whence also -tās). Surface etymology: from aevum +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.taːs/, [ˈäe̯t̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.tas/, [ˈɛːt̪äs]
• Rhymes: -aːs

aetās f (genitive aetātis); third declension

1. (principally): the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
2. time of life, period of life, age
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.353-354:

     et monet aetātis speciē, dum flōreat, ūtī;
     contemnī spīnam, cum cecidēre rosae

     And she urges [us] to indulge in the sight of [young] age, while [it is] still in bloom: The thorn is despised when the roses have fallen.
     (“She” is Flora (mythology).)

3. an undefined, particularly long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
4. (metonymically) a generation

Third-declension noun.

• æt.
• aetātula
• aeternus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: etã
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: età, etade, etate
  • Sicilian: itati, ità
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: etât, ete
  • Piedmontese: età
  • Romansch: eted, età
  • Venetian: età
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: edat
  • Old French: edet, eé
  • Occitan: edat
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: edat
  • Asturian: edá
  • Galician: idade
  • Portuguese: idade
  • Spanish: edad
• Vulgar Latin:
  • *aetāticum
    • Old Franco-Provençal: eajo
      • Franco-Provençal: âjo, azhou, âdzo, âdjyó m
    • Old French: edage, eage, aage m or f (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Interlingua: etate
  • → Romanian: etate

• “aetas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aetas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aetas 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)
• aetas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    
  • in the time of Pericles: aetate (temporibus) Periclis
    
  • the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
    
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles summus vir illius aetatis
    
  • to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
    
  • to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
    
  • from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
    
  • to be in the prime of life: aetate florere, vigere
    
  • to be in the prime of life: integra aetate esse
    
  • with advancing years: aetate progrediente
    
  • with the weight, weakness of declining years: aetate ingravescente
    
  • manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
    
  • having reached man's estate: corroborata, firmata aetate
    
  • to be advanced in years: aetate provectum esse (not aetate provecta)
    
  • to be more advanced in years: longius aetate provectum esse
    
  • to be infirm through old age: aetate affecta esse
    
  • to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
    
  • the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
    
  • the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • to be older than: aetate alicui antecedere, anteire
    
  • how old are you: qua aetate es?
    
  • to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
    
  • to be middle-aged (i.e. between thirty and forty): tertiam iam aetatem videre
    
  • to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
    
  • our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
    
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    
  • to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere
    
  • to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
    
  • the usual subjects taught to boys: doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet (Nep. Att. 1. 2)
    
  • the usual subjects taught to boys: artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet
    
  • to choose a career, profession: genus vitae (vivendi) or aetatis degendae deligere
    
  • modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
    
  • the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
    
  • universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
    
  • the mythical period, the heroic age: aetas heroica (Tusc. 5. 3. 7)
    
  • the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
    
  • people of every rank and age: homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
    
  • the consular age (43 years): aetas consularis
    
  • military age: aetas militaris
    
  • men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
    
• “aetas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aetas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin