noun · femininethird declension
aetās
aetās f (genitive aetātis)
Classical[ˈae̯.taːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛː.tas]
№ 308 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
- time of life, period or stage of life, age
Numquam igitur satis dignē laudārī philosophia poterit, cui quī pāreat, omne tempus aetātis sine molestiā possit dēgere.
Therefore, philosophy can never be praised as highly as she deserves, since he who obeys her is able to pass through every stage of life without distress.106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 1.2Nam ut cuiusque studium ex aetāte flāgrābat, aliīs scorta praebēre, aliīs canēs atque equōs mercārī.
As the passions of each, according to his years, appeared excited, he furnished mistresses to some, bought horses and dogs for others.86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De Coniuratione Catilinae 14.6 - an undefined, relatively long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
- metonymicallya generation
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
prīma, media, ultima pars vītae; etiam saeculum.aetās -ātis f — in Mille Verba, ch. Vīta et Mors
tempus vītae, saeculumaetās -ātis (f) — in Metamorphoses I, †
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aetās | aetātēs |
| genitive | aetātis | aetātum |
| dative | aetātī | aetātibus |
| accusative | aetātem | aetātīs aetātēs |
| ablative | aetāte | aetātibus |
| vocative | aetās | aetātēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- flos aetatis
- the prime of youthful vigour.
- extrema aetas
- the last stage of life, one's last days.
- qua aetate es?
- how old are you?
- aetas militaris
- military age.
- aetas consularis
- the consular age (43 years).
- exacta aetate mori
- to die at a good old age.
- aetate progrediente
- with advancing years.
- aetate affecta esse
- to be infirm through old age.
35 more phrases
- integra aetate esse
- to be in the prime of life.
- aetate ingravescente
- with the weight, weakness of declining years.
- aetate florere, vigere
- to be in the prime of life.
- extremum tempus aetatis
- the last stage of life, one's last days.
- media quae vocatur aetas
- the middle ages.
- ea aetate, id aetatis esse
- to be of such and such an age.
- tertiam iam aetatem videre
- to be middle-aged (i.e. between thirty and forty).
- corroborata, firmata aetate
- having reached man's estate.
- recentioris aetatis memoria
- modern history.
- aetate (temporibus) Periclis
- in the time of Pericles.
- longius aetate provectum esse
- to be more advanced in years.
- decimum aetatis annum ingredi
- to be entering on one's tenth year.
- aetas heroica (Tusc. 5. 3. 7)
- the mythical period, the heroic age.
- aetate alicui antecedere, anteire
- to be older than.
- aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
- to devote one's life to science, study.
- homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
- people of every rank and age.
- Pericles summus vir illius aetatis
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day.
- nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
- our generation has seen many victories.
- per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere
- to pass one's life in luxury and idleness.
- in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
- to happen during a person's life, year of office.
- memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
- the history of our own times; contemporary history.
- homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
- our contemporaries; men of our time.
aetas, ātis, f. contr. from the anteclass. aevitas from aevum, q. v.; Prisc. 595 P.; cf. Welsh oet (
I. gen. plur. aetatum;
but freq. also aetatium, Liv. 1, 43; 9, 17; 26, 9; cf. Oud. ad Suet. Aug. 31; Vell. 2, 89; Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; Gell. 14, 1). I. The period of life, time of life, life, age (divided, acc. to Varr. ap. Censor. 14, into pueritia, from birth to the 15th year; adulescentia, from that time to the 30th; juventus, to the 45th; the age of the seniores, to the 60th; and, finally, senectus, from that time till death. Others make a different division, v. Flor. 1 prooem.; Isid. Orig. 11, 2; Gell. 10, 28; 15, 20):
a primo tempore aetatis, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13: prima aetas, id. Off. 2, 13: ineuntis aetatis inscientia, id. ib. 1, 34; so 2, 13: flos aetatis, the bloom of life, id. Phil. 2, 2; Liv. 21; Suet. Caes. 49; so, bona aetas, Cic. Sen. 14; and poet. in the plur.: ambo florentes aetatibus, Verg. E. 7, 4: quamquam aetas senet, satis habeo tamen virium, ut te arā arceam, Pac. ap. Prisc. 1, 10; id. ap. Non. 159, 19: mala aetas, old age, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6; and absol.: aetas, aevitas = senectus, old age, SI MORBVS AEVITASVE VITIVM ESCIT, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25: aetate (through age) non quis obtuerier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 154; 1, 3, 130; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 5: sed ipse morbo atque aetate confectus, Sall. J. 9: graves aetate, Liv. 7, 39.—Sometimes also absol. = adulescentia, youth: fui ego illā aetate et feci illa omnia, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 4; id. Most. 5, 2, 27: damna, dedecora aetas ipsius pertulit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12: tua autem aetas (of his son), id. Off. 2, 13: (mulier) non formā, non aetate, non opibus maritum invenerit, Tac. G. 19: expers belli propter aetatem, Suet. Aug. 8: aetas consularis, the legal age for the consulship, i. e. the 43d year, Cic. Phil. 5, 17: id aetatis jam sumus, we have now reached that time of life, id. Fam. 6, 20, 3.—II. Transf.
A. In gen., the lifetime of man, without reference to its different stages; life, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 16:
aetas acta honeste et splendide, Cic. Tusc. 3, 25: gerere, id. Fam. 4, 5 al.: tempus aetatis, id. Sen. 19: aetatem consumere in studio aliquo, id. Off. 1, 1: conterere in litibus, id. Leg. 1, 20: degere omnem in tranquillitate, id. Fin. 2, 35; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 53 al.—In Ov. M. 12, 188, aetas = centum annos.—B. A space of time, an age, generation, time:
heroicae aetates, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7: haec aetas, id. ib. 1, 3, 5; id. Rep. 1, 1: alia, id. Lael. 27, 101 Beier: nostrā aetate, in our times, Quint. 1, 4, 20: cum primis aetatis suae comparabatur, Nep. Iphicr. 1; Vell. 1, 16: incuriosa suorum aetas, Tac. Agr. 1: omnia fert aetas, time, Verg. E. 9, 51; so Hor. C. 4, 9, 10: crastina aetas, the morrow, Stat. Th. 3, 562. —Of the four ages of the world (the golden age, silver age, etc.), Ov. M. 1, 89 sq.; v. aureus, argenteus, etc.—C. Abstr. pro concreto, the time or period of life, for the man himself, the age, for the men living in it (mostly poet., and in prose after the Aug. per.; cf.
saeculum): sibi inimicus magis quam aetati tuae, i. e. tibi, Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 1: vae aetati tuae, id. Capt. 4, 2, 105: quid nos dura refugimus Aetas? Hor. C. 1, 35, 34: impia, id. Epod. 16, 9: veniens, Ov. F. 6, 639: omnis aetas currere obviam, Liv. 27, 51: omnis sexus, omnis aetas, Tac. A. 13, 16: innoxiam liberorum aetatem miserarentur, i. e. innocentes liberos, id. H. 3, 68: sexum, aetatem, ordinem omnem, Suet. Calig. 4.—D. Also of things without life, e. g. of wine, its age: bibite Falernum hoc: annorum quadraginta est. Bene, inquit, aetatem fert, it keeps well, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 2, 3; Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33; 15, 2, 3, § 7.—So of buildings:
aetates aedificiorum, Dig. 30, 58.—E. Aetatem, a dverb. (ante-class.).
1. = semper, perpetuo, through the whole of life, during lifetime, continually:
ut aetatem ambo nobis sint obnoxii, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 18: at tu aegrota, si lubet, per me aetatem quidem, id. Curc. 4, 3, 22: Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id adsimularier, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 38.—2. = diu, longo tempore, an age, a long time, a long while:
an abiit jam a milite? Jamdudum aetatem, Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 8: quod solis vapor aetatem non posse videtur efficere, what the heat of the sun cannot perhaps effect for years, Lucr. 6, 236.— F. In aetate, adverb. (ante-class.).
1. At times, sometimes, now and then, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 2.—
2. At any time, always, ever, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
aetās ātis (gen plur. -tum; sometimes -tium, L.), f
for older aevitas, the life of man, age, lifetime, years: amicitia cum aetate adcrevit, T.: acta aetas honeste: expectemus Tartessiorum regis aetatem, i. e. a life as long: satis aetatis habere, to be old enough: aetatis quod reliquum est meae, the rest of my life: vix ullum discrimen aetatis, L.: tertia, i. e. century, O.—Age, time of life: dum aetas prohibebit (sc. te scire), T.: ab ineunte aetate, from his entrance into life: prima, childhood: puerilis, Cs.: aetatis flos, youthful vigor: cuius aetas a senatorio gradu longe abesset, i. e. youth: propter aetatem eius, Cs.: qui aliquid aetatis habebant, i. e. the youth: quarta, i. e. the fourth year, V.: respice aetatem tuam (i. e. senectutem), T.: iam adfectus aetate: morbo atque aetate confectus, S.: exactā aetate, in old age, L.: aetatis excusatio, plea of age, Cs.: id aetatis duo filii, of that age: cum id aetatis filio: cum illud esset aetatis: ad hoc aetatis a pueritiā, S. — Of plants: adolescit frondibus aetas, V.—Of sheep: par aetas, haedi, O.—Meton., a space of time, age, period, generation, time: heroicae aetates: aetas succedit aetati: nec ulla umquam aetas: aetatis suae primi, N.: Veniet lustris labentibus aetas, cum, etc., V.: prior, O.: crastina, the future, H.—Of the four ages of the world (the golden age, silver age, etc.), O.—Time, the flight of time, advancing age: te aetas mitigabit: fugerit invida aetas, H.: omnia fert aetas, V.—Men of an age: cum vestrā etiam aetate, with young men: vos, acrior aetas, O iuvenes, O.: militaris fere aetas omnis, L. — The age, men of the age: nos dura Aetas, H.: Inventum omnis quem credidit aetas, etc., V.—In acc. of time: me aetatem censes velle, etc., forever? T.: an abiit iam a milite? Iam dudum, aetatem, an age, T.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ey-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂óyu
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂oywom
- Proto-Italic*aiwom
- Proto-Italic*aiwotāts
- Latinaetās
Ultimately from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom + *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“vital energy, life”). By surface analysis, aevum + -tās. There are varying proposals for the exact series of processes that resulted in this term: * Sihler proposes that it was syncopated from earlier Old Latin aevitās, itself from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts. * De Vaan suggests that it may derive from earlier *aiotās, itself from *aiwotāts * De Vaan alternatively suggests that it may derive from earlier *ajitās, from *aiwitās, itself also from *aiwotāts. Fortson also records *aiwitās as the pre-form of this term.
Italo-Romance
- Italianetà
- Italianetade
- Italianetate
- Sicilianitati
- Sicilianità
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanedat
- Occitanedat
- Old Frenchedet, eé
Ibero-Romance
- Portugueseidade
- Spanishedad
- Aragoneseedat
- Asturianedá
- Galicianidade
Borrowings
- Romanianetate
- Aromanianetãfrom Albanian jetë
- Interlinguaetate
- Paelignianaetatu
North Italian
- Emilianetè
- Friulianetât
- Friulianete
- Ligurianetæ
- Piedmonteseetà
- Romansheted
- Romanshetà
- Venetanetà
Vulgar Latin
- Franco-Provençalâjofrom unknown *aetāticum
- Old Frenchedage, eage, aagefrom unknown *aetāticum
In English words that came into English from aetās
- age*aetāticum
- eternalaeternālis
- eternityaeternitās
- aeviternityaeviternus
- coetaneouscoaetaneus
- aetataetatis