legatio
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lēgō (“send with a commission”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /leːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [ɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [leˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]lēgātiō f (genitive lēgātiōnis); third declension
- ambassador (office, not person)
- embassy; member of an embassy; mission; (cf. Whitaker's Words)
- legation
- deputy command
- donation, bequest (medieval)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lēgātiō | lēgātiōnēs |
| genitive | lēgātiōnis | lēgātiōnum |
| dative | lēgātiōnī | lēgātiōnibus |
| accusative | lēgātiōnem | lēgātiōnēs |
| ablative | lēgātiōne | lēgātiōnibus |
| vocative | lēgātiō | lēgātiōnēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: legation
- French: légation
- Italian: legazione
- Portuguese: legação
- Romanian: legație
- Spanish: legación
References
[edit]- “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- legatio 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)
- legatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- legatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “legatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill