excelsitas

== Latin == === Etymology === From excelsus (“lofty”) + -tās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛksˈkɛɫ.sɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eksˈt͡ʃɛl.si.tas] === Noun === excelsitās f (genitive excelsitātis); third declension loftiness, height, ascendency ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “excelsitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “excelsitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers