licentia

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Latin

Etymology

From licēns (“free, unrestrained”) +‎ -ia, with licēns being the present active participle of licet (“it is allowed or permitted”).

Pronunciation

Noun

licentia f (genitive licentiae); first declension

  1. a license, freedom, liberty
  2. a liberty which one assumes; boldness, presumption
  3. unrestrained liberty, dissoluteness, licentiousness, wantonness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative licentia licentiae
Genitive licentiae licentiārum
Dative licentiae licentiīs
Accusative licentiam licentiās
Ablative licentiā licentiīs
Vocative licentia licentiae

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References

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