nobilitas

Latin

Etymology

From nōbilis (“noble”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noːˈbi.li.taːs/, [noːˈbɪlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈbi.li.tas/, [noˈbiːlit̪äs]

Noun

nōbilitās f (genitive nōbilitātis); third declension

1. celebrity, fame, renown
2. nobility (noble birth)
3. nobleness

Declension

Third-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	nōbilitās	nōbilitātēs
genitive	nōbilitātis	nōbilitātum
dative	nōbilitātī	nōbilitātibus
accusative	nōbilitātem	nōbilitātēs
ablative	nōbilitāte	nōbilitātibus
vocative	nōbilitās	nōbilitātēs

Verb

nōbilitās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of nōbilitō

References

• “nobilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nobilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nobilitas 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)
• nobilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the aristocracy (as a social class): nobiles; nobilitas; qui nobilitate generis excellunt
    

Portuguese

Verb

nobilitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of nobilitar