adulatio

Latin

Etymology

From adūlor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

adūlātiō f (genitive adūlātiōnis); third declension

  1. fawning
  2. flattery
  3. adulation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative adūlātiō adūlātiōnēs
genitive adūlātiōnis adūlātiōnum
dative adūlātiōnī adūlātiōnibus
accusative adūlātiōnem adūlātiōnēs
ablative adūlātiōne adūlātiōnibus
vocative adūlātiō adūlātiōnēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: adulació
  • English: adulation
  • French: adulation
  • Galician: adulación
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Italian: adulazione
  • Polish: (obsolete) adulacja (learned)
  • Portuguese: adulação
  • Spanish: adulación

References

  • adulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • adulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "adulatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • adulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • adulatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • adulatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin