aetas
Meaning
- (declension-3) the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
- (declension-3) time of life, period of life, age
- (declension-3) an undefined, relatively long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
- (declension-3, metonymically) a generation
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈae̯.taːs]
Etymology
Syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom ((whence also aevum) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“lifetime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“vital energy, life”)) + *-tāts (whence also -tās). By surface analysis, aevum + -tās.
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