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excellentia
excellentia
Latin
Noun
excellentia f (genitive excellentiae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | excellentia | excellentiae |
| genitive | excellentiae | excellentiārum |
| dative | excellentiae | excellentiīs |
| accusative | excellentiam | excellentiās |
| ablative | excellentiā | excellentiīs |
| vocative | excellentia | excellentiae |
Related terms
- excellēns
- excellenter
- excellō
- excelsitās
- excelsus
Descendants
- English: excellence, excellency
- French: excellence
- Italian: eccellenza
- Portuguese: excelência
- Spanish: excelencia
References
- excellentia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- excellentia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- EXCELLENTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “excellentia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.