Proprietatibus

Proprietatibus is a Latin form that appears in discussions of the noun proprietas, which means property, ownership, or attribute. The base noun is feminine and belongs to the first- or third-declension system in Latin grammar, with proprietatis as its genitive singular. The form proprietatibus is the dative plural and the ablative plural. As such, it is used to indicate indirect objects (in the dative) or to express various uses of the ablative, including means, manner, or association, depending on the surrounding verbs and constructions.

In meaning, proprietas covers both external ownership and intrinsic attributes or properties of a thing. In legal and philosophical Latin, the term can refer to rights over a thing (ownership) as well as to essential qualities that define what a thing is. Because proprietas can denote both possession and characteristic, its plural forms like proprietatibus appear in sentences that discuss relationships between owners, objects, and their properties or attributes.

The word has a clear etymological connection to the modern English word property and to adjectives such as proper or propriety, all sharing a root related to that which is one's own or appropriate. In Latin texts, proprietatibus thus functions as a grammatical vehicle for relating things to their properties, owners, or attributes, depending on case and syntactic context.

See also: ownership, property, attribute, Latin grammar, legal Latin.

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