commiseratio

commiseratio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin miser
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -or
Latin miseror
Latin commiseror
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin commiserātiō

    From commiseror (“to commiserate”) + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    commiserātiō f (genitive commiserātiōnis); third declension

    1. (rhetoric) an appeal to compassion

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative commiserātiō commiserātiōnēs
    genitive commiserātiōnis commiserātiōnum
    dative commiserātiōnī commiserātiōnibus
    accusative commiserātiōnem commiserātiōnēs
    ablative commiserātiōne commiserātiōnibus
    vocative commiserātiō commiserātiōnēs

    Descendants

    References

    • “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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