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Latin
Etymology
Derived from obscūrus (“dark”) + -tās (“-ity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
obscūritās f (genitive obscūritātis); third declension
- darkness
- obscurity, indistinctness
- Synonym: nūbēs
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
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.