LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

rāritās

rāritās f (genitive rāritātis)
Classical[ˈraː.rɪ.taːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈraː.ri.tas]

Meaning

  1. looseness, thinness, the state of being loose, not dense
  2. rarity, scarcity, moderation
  3. a thing that is rare, a rarity

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativerāritāsrāritātēs
genitiverāritātisrāritātum
dativerāritātīrāritātibus
accusativerāritātemrāritātēs
ablativerāritāterāritātibus
vocativerāritāsrāritātēs

rārĭtas, ātis, f. id.,
I. the state of being loose or not dense, looseness of texture, distance apart (good prose).
I. Lit.: in pulmonibus inest raritas quaedam et assimilis spongiis mollitudo ad hauriendum spiritum aptissima, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: dentium, Quint. 11, 3, 55: (asini) nec pontes transeunt, per raritatem eorum translucentibus fluviis, Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 169.—In plur.: foraminum raritates, Vitr. 2, 5: venarum, id. 8, 3.—
II. Transf., small number, fewness, rarity: capillorum, thinness, Suet. Oth. 12; cf. superciliorum, Plin. 28, 11, 46, § 163: stellarum (opp. multitudo), id. 2, 18, 16, § 80: remanentium (hominum), Suet. Aug. 43: exemplorum, Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; cf. Cels. 7, 14: raritas dictorum distinguet oratorem a scurrā, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 247; cf. figurarum, Quint. 9, 3, 27: lavandi, Suet. Aug. 82: in raritate videre, Lampr. Elag. 28. —
b. Concr., a rarity: Alexandro equi magna raritas contigit, Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154.— In plur.: raritates, Gell. 3, 16, 9.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin rāritās From rārus (“loose, sparse, rare”) + -tās.

Descendants
  • Catalanraritat
  • Englishrarity
  • Frenchrareté
  • Italianrarità
  • Portugueseraridade
  • Romanianraritate
  • Spanishraridad
  • Friulianraritât
  • Piedmonteserairità
  • Piedmonteserarità

In English words that came into English from rāritās

  • rarityrāritās

Quick answers

What does rāritās mean in Latin?
rāritās, a noun, means “looseness, thinness, the state of being loose, not dense; rarity, scarcity, moderation; a thing that is rare, a rarity”.
What is the genitive of rāritās?
The genitive singular is rāritātis. rāritās is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce rāritās?
In classical Latin, [ˈraː.rɪ.taːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈraː.ri.tas].