vilitas

== Latin == === Etymology === From vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive”) + -tās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.lɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.li.tas] === Noun === vīlitās f (genitive vīlitātis); third declension cheapness, inexpensiveness meanness, baseness, worthlessness, vileness contempt ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: vility French: vilité Italian: viltà === References === “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vilitas", 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) “vilitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.