libertas
See also: Libertas and libertás
Latin
Etymology
From līber (“free”) + -tās. Cognate with Faliscan 𐌋𐌏𐌉𐌚𐌉𐌓𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏 (loifirtato).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liːˈber.taːs/, [lʲiːˈbɛrt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈber.tas/, [liˈbɛrt̪äs]
Noun
lībertās f (genitive lībertātis); third declension
- liberty, freedom
- Antonyms: servitūs, servitūdō, servitium
- civil liberty
- political liberty, independence
- freedom of speech, candor
- (social) privilege
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lībertās | lībertātēs |
| Genitive | lībertātis | lībertātum |
| Dative | lībertātī | lībertātibus |
| Accusative | lībertātem | lībertātēs |
| Ablative | lībertāte | lībertātibus |
| Vocative | lībertās | lībertātēs |
Related terms
- līber
- līberālis
- līberālitās
- līberāliter
- līberātiō
- līberātor
- līberē
- līberī
- līberō
- liberta
- lībertīnus
- lībertō
- lībertus
Descendants
- → Friulian: libertât
- → Italian: libertà
- Old Occitan:
- → Catalan: llibertat
- → Occitan: libertat
- → Old French: liberté
- French: liberté
- → Romanian: libertate
- → Middle English: liberte
- English: liberty
- French: liberté
- → Old Portuguese: liberdade
- Galician: liberdade
- Portuguese: liberdade
- → Sicilian: libbirtati (old Sicilian)
- Sicilian: libbirtà
- → Old Spanish: libertat
- → Spanish: libertad
- → Venetian: łibartà
References
- “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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese
Verb
libertas
- second-person singular present indicative of libertar
Spanish
Adjective
libertas f pl
- feminine plural of liberto
Noun
libertas f pl
- plural of liberta
Verb
libertas
- second-person singular present indicative of libertar