commoditas

Latin

Etymology

commodus (“suitable; convenient; opportune, timely”) +‎ -tas

Noun

commoditās f (genitive commoditātis); third declension

  1. timeliness
  2. fitness, aptness
  3. convenience
  4. advantage, utility
    Synonyms: commodum, praemium, usus, profectus
    Synonyms: incommodum, detrimentum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative commoditās commoditātēs
Genitive commoditātis commoditātum
Dative commoditātī commoditātibus
Accusative commoditātem commoditātēs
Ablative commoditāte commoditātibus
Vocative commoditās commoditātēs

Descendants
  • Catalan: comoditat
  • Anglo-Norman: commoditee
    • → Middle English: commoditee
  • → French: commodité
  • Galician: comodidade
  • → German: Kommodität
  • Italian: comodità
  • Occitan: comoditat
  • Portuguese: comodidade
  • Sicilian: cummidità
  • Spanish: comodidad

References
  • “commoditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “commoditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • commoditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • comfor: vitae commoditas iucunditasque
  • commoditas in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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