Latin

Noun

ūtilitās f ‎(genitive ūtilitātis); third declension

1. usefulness, utility
2. expediency
3. advantage

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: utility
• French: utilité
• Italian: utilità
• Portuguese: utilidade
• Spanish: utilidad

References

• utilitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• utilitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “utilitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • untold advantages arise from a thing: utilitas efflorescit ex aliqua re
    
  • to be serviceable: utilitatem afferre, praebere
    
  • to considerably (in no way) further the common good: multum (nihil) ad communem utilitatem afferre
    
  • to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
    
• utilitas in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016