celeritas

From celer (“fast, swift”) +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /keˈle.ri.taːs/, [kɛˈɫ̪ɛrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈle.ri.tas/, [t͡ʃeˈlɛːrit̪äs]

celeritās f (genitive celeritātis); third declension

1. quickness, speed, swiftness, haste, celerity

Third-declension noun.

• (quickness, swiftness): vēlōcitās

• celer
• celeriter
• celerō

• Catalan: celeritat
• English: celerity
• French: célérité
• Italian: celerità
• Portuguese: celeridade
• Romanian: celeritate
• Spanish: celeridad

• “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “celeritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• celeritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: praecurrere aliquem (celeritate)
    
  • dulness of intellect: ingenii tarditas (opp. celeritas)
    
  • vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
    
  • readiness in debate, in repartee: celeritas in respondendo