commoditas

Latin

Etymology

commodus (“suitable; convenient; opportune, timely”) +‎ -tas

Noun

commoditās f (genitive commoditātis); third declension

1. timeliness
2. fitness, aptness
3. convenience
4. advantage, utility

   Synonyms: commodum, praemium, usus, profectus

   Synonyms: incommodum, detrimentum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	commoditās	commoditātēs
genitive	commoditātis	commoditātum
dative	commoditātī	commoditātibus
accusative	commoditātem	commoditātēs
ablative	commoditāte	commoditātibus
vocative	commoditās	commoditātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: comoditat
• Anglo-Norman: commoditee
  • → Middle English: commoditee
    • English: commodity
• → French: commodité
• Galician: comodidade
• → German: Kommodität
• Italian: comodità
• Occitan: comoditat
• Portuguese: comodidade
• Romanian: comoditate
• Sicilian: cummidità
• Spanish: comodidad

References

• “commoditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commoditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commoditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • comfor: vitae commoditas iucunditasque
    
• commoditas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016