pestilentia

Latin

Etymology

From pestilentus (“pestilent”) +‎ -ia.

Noun

pestilentia f (genitive pestilentiae); first declension

1. infectious or contagious disease; plague, pestilence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pestilentia	pestilentiae
Genitive	pestilentiae	pestilentiārum
Dative	pestilentiae	pestilentiīs
Accusative	pestilentiam	pestilentiās
Ablative	pestilentiā	pestilentiīs
Vocative	pestilentia	pestilentiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: pestilència
• → Old French: pestilence
  • → English: pestilence
  • French: pestilence
• Italian: pestilenza
• Portuguese: pestilência
• Romanian: pestilență
• Spanish: pestilencia

Adjective

pestilentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pestilēns

References

• “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pestilentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit