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caritas
caritas
Latin
Alternative forms
Noun
cāritās f (genitive cāritātis); third declension
- dearness
- costliness
- charity, the attitude of kindness and understanding towards others
- price
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cāritās | cāritātēs |
| genitive | cāritātis | cāritātum |
| dative | cāritātī | cāritātibus |
| accusative | cāritātem | cāritātēs |
| ablative | cāritāte | cāritātibus |
| vocative | cāritās | cāritātēs |
Descendants
References
- caritas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caritas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CARITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caritas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona
- dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona