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Latin
Etymology
From meditor (“to think or reflect upon, meditate”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
meditātiō f (genitive meditātiōnis); third declension
- The act of thinking over something, contemplation, meditation; thought, idea.
- The act of planning or devising.
- (by extension) Preparation for something; intention.
- (by extension) Exercise or practice in something, study, rehearsal, custom, habit.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “meditatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meditatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meditatio 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)
- meditatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.