Antiquitatum

Antiquitatum is the genitive plural form of the Latin noun antiquitas, which means antiquity, oldness, or the distant past. As a genitive plural, antiquitatum expresses possession or association and is commonly rendered as "of the antiquities" or "of antiquity" in English. Antiquitas is a third-declension noun; its singular forms are antiquitas (nominative) and antiquitatis (genitive), while the plural forms include antiquitates (nominative) and antiquitatum (genitive). The use of antiquitatum appears in inscriptions and texts whenever a plural concept of antiquity is involved, typically as part of a larger phrase describing objects, periods, or qualities linked to the ancient world.

In scholarly Latin, antiquitatum may occur in titles, descriptions, or catalog entries dealing with ancient artifacts or the ancient past. Its exact nuance depends on context, but it generally signals reference to antiquity rather than to modern culture. While not a common standalone term in everyday Latin, antiquitatum is a standard inflected form used to convey relationships to antiquity in historical, archaeological, or philological writings.

See also Antiquitas; Antiquities in classical scholarship; Latin grammar.