Latin

Noun

vetustās f ‎(genitive vetustātis); third declension

1. old age
2. long existence or duration
3. antiquity

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• French: vétusté
• Spanish: vetustez

Adjective

vetustās

1. accusative feminine plural of vetustus

References

• vetustas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vetustas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vetustas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be very old friends: vetustate amicitiae coniunctum esse
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    

Portuguese

Adjective

vetustas f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective vetusto.

Spanish

Adjective

vetustas f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective vetusto.