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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=la ūnus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈuː.nɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈuː.ni.tas]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ūnitās''' ''f'' (genitive ūnitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ūnus]] “one” with the suffix [[-tās]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Varro, of sharing a common nature.^(OLD 2012) Köbler also starts with Varro, whom he dates 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the quality of being one in number, as Gellius' ''singulāris numerī ūnitās'', and of being an undivided whole, unity, as in Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Seneca it meant oneness of mind or action, and in Varro the sharing of a common nature.^(OLD 2012) In Celsus it meant forming a uniform whole, ''in ūnitātem coīre'' “to unite”, and in Columella sameness of appearance.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant unity.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of spiritual union, the unity of the Church, and concord.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|unity]] came about 1300 through Anglo-French, and [[en|unit]] in the 1560s as an alteration of ''unity''.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a common nature.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of a uniform whole.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of the singular number.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''unity'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Oneness in number.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|Unity]]; oneness of mind; a common nature.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A uniform whole; sameness.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The unity of the Church; concord.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[ūniō]]
+ * [[ūniter]]
+ * [[ūnus]]
+ * [[en|unity]]
+ * [[en|unit]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}