obscuritas
Latin
Etymology
Derived from obscūrus (“dark”) + -tās (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔpˈskuː.rɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [obˈskuː.ri.t̪as]
Noun
obscūritās f (genitive obscūritātis); third declension
- darkness
- obscurity, indistinctness
- Synonym: nūbēs
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | obscūritās | obscūritātēs |
| genitive | obscūritātis | obscūritātum |
| dative | obscūritātī | obscūritātibus |
| accusative | obscūritātem | obscūritātēs |
| ablative | obscūritāte | obscūritātibus |
| vocative | obscūritās | obscūritātēs |
Descendants
- English: obscurity
- Asturian: escuridá
- Catalan: obscuritat
- French: obscurité
- Italian: oscurità
- Portuguese: obscuridade
- Romanian: obscuritate
- Spanish: oscuridad
References
- “obscuritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obscuritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obscuritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.