-ity
English dictionary entry
Meanings
suffix
- Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.
- Used to form a countable noun from an adjective, referring to someone or something that conforms to the adjective's description.
- Used to form other nouns, especially abstract nouns.
suffix
- Alternative form of -ety.
Pronunciation
/əti/
/ɪti/
[əɾi]
[ɾi]
[ɪɾi]
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/ɪʈi/
Word forms
-ity
-ities
-ty
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Etymology
From Middle English -ite, -itee, from Old French -ite, -ete, -eteit (“-ity”), from Latin -itātem, from -itās, from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix). Cognate with Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa, “-th”), Old High German -ida (“-th”), Old English -þo, -þu, -þ (“-th”). More at -th. By surface analysis, -i- (“connecting vowel”) + -ty.
Translations
Afrikaans: -iteit
Albanian: -itet
Armenian: -ություն
Aromanian: -ãtati
Aromanian: -tati
Asturian: -idá
Asturian: -dá
Bashkir: -лыҡ
Bashkir: -лек
Bashkir: -лоҡ
Bashkir: -лөк
Basque: -itate
Belarusian: -ітэ́т
Catalan: -itat
Catalan: -tat
Chinese Mandarin: 性
Czech: -ita
Danish: -itet
Danish: -hed
Dutch: -heid
Dutch: -iteit
Estonian: -iteet
Finnish: -uus
Finnish: -iteetti
French: -ité
French: -té
Friulian: -itât
Friulian: -tât
Galician: -dade
Galician: -idade
German: -ität
Greek: -ότητα
Hebrew: ־וּת
Hungarian: -itás
Indonesian: -itas
Interlingua: -itate
Italian: -ità
Japanese: 性
Korean: 성
Northern Kurdish: -tî
Northern Kurdish: -îtî
Northern Kurdish: -ayetî
Latin: -itas
Latvian: -itāte
Malay: -iti
Malay: -itet
Malay: -itas
Malay: ke--an
Maltese: -ità
Middle English: -te
Middle English: -ite
Norwegian Bokmål: -itet
Norwegian Nynorsk: -itet
Occitan: -itat
Old English: -þu
Old English: -þ
Polish: -ość
Portuguese: -idade
Portuguese: -dade
Romanian: -itate
Romanian: -tate
Romanian: -ătate
Romanian: -eață
Romanian: -ețe
Romanian: -ie
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