obscuritas
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Derived from obscūrus (“dark”) + -tās (“-ity”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /obˈskuː.ri.taːs/, [ɔpˈs̠kuːrɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /obˈsku.ri.tas/, [obˈskuːrit̪äs]
Noun edit
obscūritās f (genitive obscūritātis); third declension
- darkness
- obscurity, indistinctness
- Synonym: nūbēs
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | obscūritās | obscūritātēs |
| Genitive | obscūritātis | obscūritātum |
| Dative | obscūritātī | obscūritātibus |
| Accusative | obscūritātem | obscūritātēs |
| Ablative | obscūritāte | obscūritātibus |
| Vocative | obscūritās | obscūritātēs |
Descendants edit
- English: obscurity
- Asturian: escuridá
- Catalan: obscuritat
- French: obscurité
- Italian: oscurità
- Portuguese: obscuridade
- Romanian: obscuritate
- Spanish: oscuridad
References edit
- “obscuritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obscuritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obscuritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.