vindicatio

From vindicō + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪn.dɪˈkaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vin.diˈkat.t͡si.o]

vindicātiō f (genitive vindicātiōnis); third declension

1. civil lawsuit
2. protection, defence; vindication

   Synonyms: dēfēnsa, dēfēnsiō, prōtēctiō, tūtēla

3. avenging
4. punishment

   Synonyms: poena, supplicium, exemplum, sānctiō, pūnītiō, mercēs, pretium, vindicta, animadversus, malum

Third-declension noun.

• “vindicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vindicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vindicatio", 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)
• “vindicatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vindicatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vindicatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin