libertas

See also: Libertas and libertás

Latin

Etymology

From līber (“free”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lībertās f (genitive lībertātis); third declension

1. liberty, freedom
2. civil liberty
3. political liberty, independence
4. freedom of speech, candor
5. (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

• Catalan: llibertat
• French: liberté
  • → English: liberty
• Friulian: libertât
• Galician: liberdade
• Italian: libertà

• Occitan: libertat
• Portuguese: liberdade
• Romanian: libertate
• Sicilian: libbirtati
• 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^[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

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Portuguese

Verb

libertas

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Spanish

Verb

libertas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of libertar.