aetas
Latin
Etymology
Syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom (whence also aevum) + *-tāts (whence also -tās), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-. Surface etymology: from aevum + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈae̯.taːs/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.tas/, [ˈɛː.tas]
- Rhymes: -aːs
Noun
aetās f (genitive aetātis); third declension
- lifetime, age, era, period of time or life
- (metonymically) a generation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aetās | aetātēs |
Genitive | aetātis | aetātum |
Dative | aetātī | aetātibus |
Accusative | aetātem | aetātīs aetātēs |
Ablative | aetāte | aetātibus |
Vocative | aetās | aetātēs |
Synonyms
- *aetaticum (Vulgar Latin)
Descendants
References
- aetas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aetas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aetas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- aetas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
- in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
- our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
- in the time of Pericles: aetate (temporibus) Periclis
- the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles summus vir illius aetatis
- to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
- to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
- from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
- the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
- to be in the prime of life: aetate florere, vigere
- to be in the prime of life: integra aetate esse
- with advancing years: aetate progrediente
- with the weight, weakness of declining years: aetate ingravescente
- manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
- having reached man's estate: corroborata, firmata aetate
- to be advanced in years: aetate provectum esse (not aetate provecta)
- to be more advanced in years: longius aetate provectum esse
- to be infirm through old age: aetate affecta esse
- to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
- the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
- the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
- to be older than: aetate alicui antecedere, anteire
- how old are you: qua aetate es?
- to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
- to be middle-aged (i.e. between thirty and forty): tertiam iam aetatem videre
- to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
- our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
- later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
- to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere
- to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
- the usual subjects taught to boys: doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet (Nep. Att. 1. 2)
- the usual subjects taught to boys: artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet
- to choose a career, profession: genus vitae (vivendi) or aetatis degendae deligere
- modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
- the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
- universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
- the mythical period, the heroic age: aetas heroica (Tusc. 5. 3. 7)
- the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
- people of every rank and age: homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
- the consular age (43 years): aetas consularis
- military age: aetas militaris
- men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
- the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
- aetas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aetas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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