securitas

Latin

Etymology

sēcūrus +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seːˈkuː.ri.taːs/, [s̠eːˈkuːrɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈku.ri.tas/, [seˈkuːrit̪äs]

Noun

sēcūritās f (genitive sēcūritātis); third declension

1. security, safety

   Synonyms: impūnitās, salūs

   Nihil tam alte insederat eius animo, quam securitas rei publicae ― He desired nothing so much, as the safety of the commonwealth.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēcūritās	sēcūritātēs
Genitive	sēcūritātis	sēcūritātum
Dative	sēcūritātī	sēcūritātibus
Accusative	sēcūritātem	sēcūritātēs
Ablative	sēcūritāte	sēcūritātibus
Vocative	sēcūritās	sēcūritātēs

Descendants

• Asturian: seguridá
• Catalan: seguretat
• English: security, surety
• French: sécurité, sûreté
• Italian: sicurtà
• Occitan: seguretat
• Old French: seurté
• Portuguese: seguridade
• Romanian: securitate
• Spanish: seguridad

References

• “securitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “securitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• securitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• securitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.