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Latin
Etymology
precor + -tiō
Noun
precātiō f (genitive precātiōnis); third declension
- prayer, praying
- Synonyms: supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, postulātum, petītiō, prex
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “precatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “precatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- precatio 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)
- precatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “precatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers