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
- Catalan: prolixitat
- Galician: prolixidade
- Italian: prolissità
- Occitan: prolixitat
- Old French: prolixite
- Portuguese: prolixidade
- Spanish: prolijidad
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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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