divitia

Latin

Etymology

From dīves (“rich”).

Noun

dīvitia f (genitive dīvitiae); first declension

1. (chiefly plural only) wealth, riches
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.6:

     Quis sit dīvitiārum modus quaeris? Prīmus habēre quod necesse est, proximus quod sat est.

     You ask what is the measure of wealth? First, to have what is necessary; second, to have what is enough.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīvitia	dīvitiae
genitive	dīvitiae	dīvitiārum
dative	dīvitiae	dīvitiīs
accusative	dīvitiam	dīvitiās
ablative	dīvitiā	dīvitiīs
vocative	dīvitia	dīvitiae

References

• “divitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divitia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be rich, wealthy: divitiis, copiis abundare
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
• “divitia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly