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Latin
Etymology
From stō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
statiō f (genitive statiōnis); third declension
- outpost, picket
- station
- watch
- a standing, standing firm, position
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Borrowings:
References
- “statio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “statio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- statio 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)
- statio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the cohort on guard-duty: cohors, quae in statione est
- to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis