proprietas

Latin

Etymology

From proprius +‎ -tās.

Noun

proprietās f (genitive proprietātis); third declension

1. quality, property, peculiarity, character
2. the legal position of an owner particularly if his property is encumbered with a usufruct
3. (Medieval Latin) property, possessions, things belonging to someone
4. (Medieval Latin) office concerning the commemoration of a certain saint

Usage notes

The legal right of ownership, the absolute and principally unrestricted right over a thing, was in antiquity regularly called dominium.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	proprietās	proprietātēs
Genitive	proprietātis	proprietātum
Dative	proprietātī	proprietātibus
Accusative	proprietātem	proprietātēs
Ablative	proprietāte	proprietātibus
Vocative	proprietās	proprietātēs

Derived terms

• nūda proprietās
• proprietārius

Descendants

• Asturian: propiedá
• Catalan: propietat
• Galician: propiedade
• Italian: proprietà
• → Old French: propreté
  • Anglo-Norman: propreté
    • → Middle English: propertee, properte, propirte, proprete
      • English: property
  • Middle French: proprieté
    • → Middle English: propriete (“ownership”)
      • English: propriety
    • French: propriété
• Portuguese: propriedade
• Romanian: proprietate
• Sicilian: prupitati, prupità
• Spanish: propriedad, propiedad

References

• “proprietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proprietas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proprietas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• proprietas 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)