designatio

designatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *seknāō
Latin signō
Latin dēsignō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dēsignātiō

    From dēsignō (“designate, describe”) + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    dēsignātiō f (genitive dēsignātiōnis); third declension

    1. a designating, describing, marking out, specification
    2. a disposition, arrangement

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative dēsignātiō dēsignātiōnēs
    genitive dēsignātiōnis dēsignātiōnum
    dative dēsignātiōnī dēsignātiōnibus
    accusative dēsignātiōnem dēsignātiōnēs
    ablative dēsignātiōne dēsignātiōnibus
    vocative dēsignātiō dēsignātiōnēs

    Descendants

    References

    • “designatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “designatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “designatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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