legatio

From lēgō (“send with a commission”) + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeːˈɡaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈɡat.t͡si.o]

lēgātiō f (genitive lēgātiōnis); third declension

1. ambassador (office, not person)
2. embassy; member of an embassy
3. legation; a diplomatic mission (cf. Whitaker’s Words)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.3:

     Is sibi lēgātiōnem ad cīvitātēs suscēpit.

     He undertook for himself a diplomatic mission to the [neighboring] states.

4. deputy command
5. donation, bequest (medieval)

Third-declension noun.

• lēgātōrius
• lēgātum
• lēgātus
• lēgō

• “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "legatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “legatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• legatio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “legatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill