proprietas
Latin
Etymology
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Noun
prōprietās f (genitive prōprietātis); third declension
- quality, property, peculiarity, character
- the legal position of an owner particularly if his property is encumbered with a usufruct
- (Medieval Latin) property, possessions, things belonging to someone
- (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 | prōprietās | prōprietātēs |
| Genitive | prōprietātis | prōprietātum |
| Dative | prōprietātī | prōprietātibus |
| Accusative | prōprietātem | prōprietātēs |
| Ablative | prōprietāte | prōprietātibus |
| Vocative | prōprietās | prōprietātēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: propiedá
- Catalan: propietat
- English: property, propriety
- French: propriété
- Galician: propiedade
- Italian: proprietà
- Portuguese: propriedade
- Romanian: proprietate
- Sicilian: prupitati, prupità
- Spanish: 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)