noun · femininethird declension
docilitās
docilitās f (genitive docilitātis)
Meaning
- docility
- gentleness
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | docilitās | docilitātēs |
| genitive | docilitātis | docilitātum |
| dative | docilitātī | docilitātibus |
| accusative | docilitātem | docilitātēs |
| ablative | docilitāte | docilitātibus |
| vocative | docilitās | docilitātēs |
dŏcĭlĭtas, ātis, f. docilis,
I. aptness for being taught, docility.
I. Prop., Cic. Sest. 42, 91; id. Fin. 5, 13, 36; Nep. Att. 1, 3; Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3; 8, 42, 64, § 157:
ad omnes fere artes, Suet. Tit. 3.—* II. Transf., in a moral sense, gentleness, Eutr. 10, 4.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
docilitās ātis, f
docilis, teachableness, docility : humana: ingenii, N.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin docilitās From docilis + -tās.
Descendants
- Catalandocilitat
- Englishdocility
- Frenchdocilité
- Italiandocilità
- Portuguesedocilidade
- Romaniandocilitate
- Spanishdocilidad
- Galiciandocilidade
In English words that came into English from docilitās
- docilitydocilitās