aetas

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ētās (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === Ultimately from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom +‎ *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“vital energy, life”). By surface analysis, aevum +‎ -tās. There are varying proposals for the exact series of processes that resulted in this term: Sihler proposes that it was syncopated from earlier Old Latin aevitās, itself from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts. De Vaan suggests that it may derive from earlier *aiotās, itself from *aiwotāts De Vaan alternatively suggests that it may derive from earlier *ajitās, from *aiwitās, itself also from *aiwotāts. Fortson also records *aiwitās as the pre-form of this term. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.tas] === Noun === aetās f (genitive aetātis); third declension (principally) the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan time of life, period of life, age an undefined, relatively long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration (metonymic) a generation ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== æt. aetātula aeternus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “aetas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aetas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "aetas", 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) “aetas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “aetas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “aetas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29 Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017), “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter, page 843