vicinitas

Latin

Etymology

From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

Noun

vīcīnitās f (genitive vīcīnitātis); third declension

  1. neighborhood
  2. nearness, proximity, vicinity
    Synonyms: propinquitās, contiguitās, adfīnitās
    Antonym: longinquitās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vīcīnitās vīcīnitātēs
genitive vīcīnitātis vīcīnitātum
dative vīcīnitātī vīcīnitātibus
accusative vīcīnitātem vīcīnitātēs
ablative vīcīnitāte vīcīnitātibus
vocative vīcīnitās vīcīnitātēs

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: vitsinãtati, vitsinãtate
    • Romanian: vecinătate
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: vezindat
    • Asturian: vecindá, vicindá
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: vezindade (rare, possibly borrowed from Spanish)
      • Portuguese: vizindade (rare)
    • Old Spanish: vezindat, vezindad
  • Borrowings:

References

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