realitas
See also: realitás
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin reālitās (compare Malay realiti).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /reaˈlitas/ [re.aˈli.t̪as]
- Rhymes: -itas
- Syllabification: re‧a‧li‧tas
Noun
realitas (plural realitas-realitas)
- reality; the state of being real
- Synonym: kenyataan
- Antonym: kemayaan
- 2016, Ekawati Ekawati, Doni Setiyawan, quoting Prof. Dr. Dadang Sunendar, “Introduction”, in Hikayat Bayan Budiman (fiction), Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, →ISBN, page i:
- Karyan sastra tidak hanya rangkaian kata demi kita, tetapi berbicara tentang kehidupan, baik secara realitas ada maupun hanya dalam gagasan atau cita-cita manusia.
- Literary works are not only a series of words for our sake, but a conversation about life, both in reality as well as (that which exists) only in ideas or ambitions of humans.
Derived terms
Compounds
- realitas tertambah (“augmented reality”)
- realitas virtual (“virtual reality”)
Related terms
Further reading
- “realitas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [reˈaː.lɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [reˈaː.li.t̪as]
Noun
reālitās f (genitive reālitātis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) reality
- 1738, Christian Wolff, Theologia Naturālis, II, §5:
- Reālitātis nōmine hic nōbīs venit quidquid entī alicui vērē inesse intelligitur, nōn vērō perperceptiōnēs nostrās cōnfūsās inesse vidētur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- The name of Reality comes to us here as whatever is understood to be truly in some being, and is seen to not be in the confusion of our perceptions at all.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | reālitās | reālitātēs |
| genitive | reālitātis | reālitātum |
| dative | reālitātī | reālitātibus |
| accusative | reālitātem | reālitātēs |
| ablative | reālitāte | reālitātibus |
| vocative | reālitās | reālitātēs |
Descendants
References
- "realitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)