excelsitas
ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου → my life is as nothing in respect to you, my life is nothing in thy reckoning
Latin > English
excelsitas excelsitatis N F :: preeminence; loftiness; height
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
excelsĭtas: ātis, f. excelsus,
I loftiness, height.
I Lit.: montium, Plin. 2, 64, 64, § 160: harundinis, id. 16, 36, 66, § 167: lilii, id. 21, 5, 11, § 23.—
II Trop.: excelsitas animi et magnitudo, Cic. Off. 3, 5, 24.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
excelsĭtās,¹⁶ ātis, f. (excelsus), élévation, hauteur : Plin. 2, 160 || [fig.] excelsitas animi Cic. Off. 3, 24, élévation de l’âme.
Latin > German (Georges)
excelsitās, ātis, f. (excelsus), das Emporragen, I) eig.: a) die Höhe, montium, Plin. 2, 160: florum, Plin. 21, 23: in excelsitatem nasci (v. Rohr), Plin. 16, 167. – b) das schlanke Sich-Emporheben, die Schlankheit, capitulorum Corinthiorum, Vitr. 4, 1, 1. – II) übtr., die Erhabenheit, animi, die Großherzigkeit, Cic. de off. 3, 24: u. so (ohne animi) Ambros. de off. 1, 28, 136.
