allocutio

allocutio

Latin

Alternative forms

adlocūtiō

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Latin loquor

Latin alloquor

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin allocūtiō

From alloquor + -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [al.lɔˈkuː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.loˈkut.t͡si.o]

Noun

allocūtiō f (genitive allocūtiōnis); third declension

The act of speaking to or accosting; address.
The act of consoling or comforting; consolation, comfort; exhortation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	allocūtiō	allocūtiōnēs
genitive	allocūtiōnis	allocūtiōnum
dative	allocūtiōnī	allocūtiōnibus
accusative	allocūtiōnem	allocūtiōnēs
ablative	allocūtiōne	allocūtiōnibus
vocative	allocūtiō	allocūtiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: al·locució
English: allocution
French: allocution
Italian: allocuzione
Portuguese: alocução
Romanian: alocuție, alocuțiune
Spanish: alocución

References

“allocutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“allocutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.