aemulatio

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Latin

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Etymology

From aemulor (“I rival, emulate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

aemulātiō f (genitive aemulātiōnis); third declension

  1. The endeavor to be equal to or match another in something; emulation, ambition; rivalry, competition.
  2. Jealousy, envy, malevolence.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative aemulātiō aemulātiōnēs
genitive aemulātiōnis aemulātiōnum
dative aemulātiōnī aemulātiōnibus
accusative aemulātiōnem aemulātiōnēs
ablative aemulātiōne aemulātiōnibus
vocative aemulātiō aemulātiōnēs

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References

  • “aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aemulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit
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