Latin

Noun

antīquitās f ‎(genitive antīquitātis); third declension

1. antiquity (ancient times)
2. the good old days
3. the ancients
4. age
5. integrity

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: antiquity
• Old Portuguese: antiguedade
• Portuguese: antiguidade
• Spanish: antigüedad

References

• antiquitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antiquitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ANTIQUITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “antiquitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • Cato's speeches sound archaic: orationes Catonis antiquitatem redolent (Brut. 21. 82)
    
  • to be of noble family: generis antiquitate florere