libertas
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *louðortāts, equivalent to līber (“free”) + -tās. Cognate with Faliscan 𐌋𐌏𐌉𐌚𐌉𐌓𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏 (loifirtato).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liːˈber.taːs/, [lʲiːˈbɛrt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈber.tas/, [liˈbɛrt̪äs]
Noun edit
lībertās f (genitive lībertātis); third declension
- liberty, freedom
- civil liberty
- political liberty, independence
- freedom of speech, candor
- (social) privilege
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lībertās | lībertātēs |
Genitive | lībertātis | lībertātum |
Dative | lībertātī | lībertātibus |
Accusative | lībertātem | lībertātēs |
Ablative | lībertāte | lībertātibus |
Vocative | lībertās | lībertātēs |
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References edit
- “libertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “libertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libertas 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)
- libertas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rob a people of its freedom: libertatem populo eripere
- to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
- independent spirit: libertas, libertatis studium
- to summon to liberty: ad libertatem conclamare
- to recover liberty: libertatem recuperare
- to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
- to rob a people of its freedom: libertatem populo eripere
- “libertas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “libertas”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- “libertas”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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libertas
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Adjective edit
libertas f pl
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libertas f pl
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