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Latin
Etymology
From lēgō (“send with a commission”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “legatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill