caecitas

Latin

Etymology

From caecus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.ki.taːs/, [ˈkae̯.kɪ.taːs]

Noun

caecitās f (genitive caecitātis); third declension

  1. blindness
    • 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
      Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
      As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caecitās caecitātēs
Genitive caecitātis caecitātum
Dative caecitātī caecitātibus
Accusative caecitātem caecitātēs
Ablative caecitāte caecitātibus
Vocative caecitās caecitātēs

Descendants

Further reading
  • caecitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caecitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caecitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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