legatio

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Latin

Etymology

From lēgō (send with a commission) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

lēgātiō f (genitive lēgātiōnis); third declension

  1. ambassador (office, not person)
  2. embassy; member of an embassy; mission; (cf. Whitaker's Words)
  3. legation
  4. deputy command
  5. donation, bequest (medieval)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lēgātiō lēgātiōnēs
genitive lēgātiōnis lēgātiōnum
dative lēgātiōnī lēgātiōnibus
accusative lēgātiōnem lēgātiōnēs
ablative lēgātiōne lēgātiōnibus
vocative lēgātiō lēgātiōnēs

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