-ity

Pronunciation

 * ; but see the usage notes below

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,,. More at.

Usage notes

 * Many nouns formed with -ity are uncountable; those that are countable form their plurals in -ities.
 * Final -e is dropped before adding this suffix.
 * Pronunciation:
 * The addition of -ity to an adjective results in a shift of stress to the antepenultimate syllable; that is, words in -ity are stressed on the last syllable before the -ity, even in cases where this syllable is part of another suffix (as in words in -ability and -icity). Further, this shift typically results in a change in vowel quality; compare, for example, real and reality, where the sound in the second word is not present in the first. These vowel quality changes are usually consistent with the spelling of both forms — note that the letter &lt;a> in the second word is present in the first — but sometimes spelling changes are seen, as with the suffix -ous, which when it combines with -ity produces the suffix -osity.
 * While a final -c is pronounced, before -ity it becomes ; compare, for example, elastic and elasticity.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: -iteit
 * Albanian: -itet
 * Armenian: -ություն
 * Aromanian: -ãtati, -tati
 * Asturian: -idá, -dá
 * Bashkir: -лыҡ, -лек, -лоҡ, -лөк
 * Basque: -itate
 * Belarusian: -ітэ́т
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: -ita
 * Danish: -itet,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: -iteet
 * Finnish:, -iteetti
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: -itât, -tât
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ־וּת
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian: -ità
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: -itas
 * Latvian: -itāte
 * Malay: -iti, -itet, -itas, ke--an
 * Maltese: -ità
 * Middle English: -te, -ite
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: -itet
 * Occitan: -itat
 * Old English: -þu, -þ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , , -eață, -ețe,
 * Russian: -ность,, -ство
 * Sicilian: -ità, -itati
 * Slovak: -ita
 * Slovene: -nost
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: u-
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: -idad
 * Turkish:, , , , -ite
 * Ukrainian: -іте́т
 * Yiddish: ־יטעט

Etymology 2
Variant of, likely an alteration of , equivalent to.