libertas

See also: Libertas and libertás

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *louðortāts, equivalent to līber (“free”) +‎ -tās. Cognate with Faliscan 𐌋𐌏𐌉𐌅𐌉𐌓𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏 (loifirtato).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liːˈber.taːs/, [lʲiːˈbɛrt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈber.tas/, [liˈbɛrt̪äs]

Noun

lībertās f (genitive lībertātis); third declension

1. liberty, freedom

   Antonyms: servitūs, servitūdō, servitium

2. civil liberty
3. political liberty, independence
4. freedom of speech, candor
5. (social) privilege

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: liberdade
  • Galician: liberdade
  • Portuguese: liberdade
• → Sicilian: libbirtati (old Sicilian)
  • Sicilian: libbirtà
• → Old Spanish: libertat
  • → Spanish: libertad
• → Venetan: 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^[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
    
• “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

Portuguese

Verb

libertas

1. second-person singular present indicative of libertar

Spanish

Adjective

libertas f pl

1. feminine plural of liberto

Noun

libertas f pl

1. plural of liberta

Verb

libertas

1. second-person singular present indicative of libertar