quantitas

== Latin == === Etymology === From quantus (“how much”) +‎ -tās. Coined by Cicero as a calque of Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs); compare quālitās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkʷan.tɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkʷan.ti.tas] === Noun === quantitās f (genitive quantitātis); third declension greatness; extent; quantity; magnitude; size sum; amount ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “quantitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "quantitas", 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) “quantitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.