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Humilitas — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

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Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short · Scaife ATLAS Editors
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1879
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Tufts University Scaife ATLAS
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Humility is an earth-and-lowness metaphor.

Latin humus “ground” produced humilis “low,” then humilitās “lowness,” before the moral virtue.

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humus “ground” → humilis “low” → humilitās “lowness” → humility

Humilitas: classical lowness fields and ecclesiastical good sense opposed to pride

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Was humility originally a positive moral virtue?

Not in every recorded Latin sense. Classical humilitās names physical lowness and low stature, then low rank, insignificance, meanness, or abjectness. Lewis and Short separately marks the good sense opposed to pride as ecclesiastical Latin.

Humilitas: classical literal and figurative senses; ecclesiastical good sense opposed to pride

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humilitās → humilitās

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The Latin form humilitās remains segmentally continuous across the modeled sense boundary.
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Literal and social lowness is positively specialized in ecclesiastical Latin as humility opposed to pride.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
Classical literal and figurative senses; ecclesiastical good sense opposed to pride

Directly distinguishes the older lowness fields from the positive ecclesiastical specialization.

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humilitās → humilis

Latin → Latin · derivation

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Latin humilitās is formed from humilis with the abstract noun suffix -itās.
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The property of being low names physical lowness, low station, insignificance, and related abstractions.
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Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
Humilitas, humilis: lowness

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