ubertas

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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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a full and copious style of speech: ubertas (not divitiae) et copia orationis
    • profusion of words: copia, ubertas verborum