facilitas

Facilitas is a Latin noun meaning ease, facility, readiness, or convenience. It denotes the quality of being easy to perform, the state of being readily available, or a person’s natural aptitude for a task. The term is derived from facilis, “easy,” and appears in classical, Late Latin, and ecclesiastical Latin. It is a feminine noun of the third declension; the genitive form is facilitatis.

In classical usage, facilitas can refer to ease of execution, the convenience of circumstances, or the readiness of a person to act. In philosophical or rhetorical contexts, it may describe mental or practical facility—the smoothness with which a task is accomplished or information is handled.

In modern English, facilitas is chiefly of historical or linguistic interest. It has given rise to words such as facility, facilitate, and facilitation, which retain related senses of ease, capability, and enabling processes. The English noun facility also carries a sense related to a place designed for a particular function, a usage that traces back to the same Latin root.

Overall, facilitas functions as a concise term for the concept of ease and competence, and it serves as the etymological foundation for several English words that describe ease of action, capability, and the provision of conveniences.