prolixitas

== Latin == === Etymology === From prōlixus (“extended, held forth”) +‎ -tās (“-ity: forming abstract nouns”), from prō (“for, forth”) + laxus (“lax, yielding”). === Noun === prōlixitās f (genitive prōlixitātis); third declension great extent, long duration excess, especially (of speech) prolixity ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “prolixitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “prolixitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "prolixitas", 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)