Saturday, April 29, 2017

integritas?

My daughter asked just now, "How do you spell integritas? (I thought maybe integritus but no it is integritas and is Latin. The English word "integrity" comes from it.

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/integritas

integritas

Contents

Latin

Etymology

From integer (complete, perfect) +‎ -itās.

Pronunciation

Noun

integritās f (genitive integritātis); third declension
  1. soundness
  2. integrity, blamelessness
  3. (of a woman) chastity
  4. (of language) correctness, purity
  5. (figuratively) the whole

Inflection

Third declension.
Case Singular Plural
nominative integritās integritātēs
genitive integritātis integritātum
dative integritātī integritātibus
accusative integritātem integritātēs
ablative integritāte integritātibus
vocative integritās integritātēs

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • integritas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • integritas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • du Cange, Charles (1883), “integritas”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
  • integritas” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
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