The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/17/17
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
--Tom Waits
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DEFINITION:
Noun
Fertile growth; abundance
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Latin (uberous, "abundant, copious")
PRONUNCIATION:
[ yu-bêr-tee]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
11
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
UBERTY, a vocable that has all but banished from modern English, was first attested, from 1413, in an obscure work by the "Monk of Bury," John Lydgate's Two Merchants; it appears to be equivalent to "rich growth, gruitfulness, fertility; copiousness, abundance," or, roughly, what Italians used to call ubertà."
--I Think I Am a Verb
by Thomas A. Sebeok, 2013
"It is the UBERTY, that is, the fruitfulness, of this lasty type of reasoning that, he tells us, increases, while its security, or approach to certainty"
--I Think I Am a Verb
by Thomas A. Sebeok, 2013
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Many english words, like uberty, are very similar to the italian word, just because they come from Latin.