nobilitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin nōbilis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin nōbilitās

From nōbilis (“noble”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [noːˈbɪ.lɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [noˈbiː.li.tas]

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, 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