Latin

Noun

castitas f ‎(genitive castitātis); third declension

1. purity
2. morality
3. chastity

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: chastity
• Old Portuguese: castidade
• Portuguese: castidade

References

• castitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• castitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “castitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.