ubertas

ubertas

Latin

Etymology

    From ūber + -tās.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    ūbertās f (genitive ūbertātis); third declension

    1. richness, plenty, abundance, copiousness
      Synonyms: abundantia, affluentia, cōpia, fertilitās, ūber, magnitūdō
      Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia
    2. fruitfulness, fertility
      Synonym: fertilitās

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ūbertās ūbertātēs
    genitive ūbertātis ūbertātum
    dative ūbertātī ūbertātibus
    accusative ūbertātem ūbertātēs
    ablative ūbertāte ūbertātibus
    vocative ūbertās ūbertātēs

    Descendants

    • Middle French: uberté
    • Italian: ubertà

    References

    • ubertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • ubertas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • ubertas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • a full and copious style of speech: ubertas (not divitiae) et copia orationis
      • profusion of words: copia, ubertas verborum