Suffix
-itia f (genitive -itiae); first declension
- -ness, -ity; Used to form nouns describing the condition of being something.
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Ladin: -eza, -ëza
- Friulian: -ece
- Venetian: -esa, -eça
- Piedmontese: -ëssa
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Asturian: -icia
- → Catalan: -ícia
- → French: -ise (indirectly; see there for more)
- → Friulian: -izie
- → Galician: -icia
- → Italian: -izia
- → Ladin: -izia
- → Occitan: -ícia
- → Portuguese: -ícia
- → Sicilian: -ìzzia
- → Spanish: -icia
- → Venetian: -isia, -içia
References
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1983. Alternatives to the classic dichotomy family tree/wave theory? The Romance evidence. In Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald F. (eds.), Language Change, 192–256. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. §4.
- Priberam Informática S.A (accessed 2023-06-12), “eza”, in Dicionário Priberam (in pt-br)