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-ità

-ità

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ita"

Italian

Suffix

-ità

  1. Used to form abstract nouns that correspond to English words ending in -ity or -ness

Usage notes

  • All are feminine and invariant

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Italian_words_suffixed_with_-it%C3%A0'>Italian words suffixed with -ità</a>

References

  1. ↑ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page 101

Etymology

From earlier Italian -itade, from -itate, from Latin -itātem, accusative singular of -itās[1], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts.

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