Graecitas

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Also with initial lower-case g. === Etymology === Graecus (“of or belonging to the Greeks”, “Greek”, “Grecian”, adjective) +‎ -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”, suffix forming nouns) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡrae̯.kɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡrɛː.t͡ʃi.tas] === Proper noun === Graecitās f sg (genitive Graecitātis); third declension (Late Latin) Greek (the Greek language, familiar to the ancients) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== English: Graecity French: grécité German: Gräzität Italian: grecità Romanian: grecitate Portuguese: grecidade === References === “Graecĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "GRÆCITAS", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “græcĭtās”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 719/2. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “graecitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 474/2