constellatio
Latin
Etymology
From cum (“together”) + stēlla (“star”) + -ātiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõː.steːlˈlaː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kon.st̪elˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
cōnstēllātiō f (genitive cōnstēllātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) a collection of stars supposed to exert an influence upon human affairs, a constellation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnstēllātiō | cōnstēllātiōnēs |
| genitive | cōnstēllātiōnis | cōnstēllātiōnum |
| dative | cōnstēllātiōnī | cōnstēllātiōnibus |
| accusative | cōnstēllātiōnem | cōnstēllātiōnēs |
| ablative | cōnstēllātiōne | cōnstēllātiōnibus |
| vocative | cōnstēllātiō | cōnstēllātiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: constel·lació
- English: constellation
- Esperanto: konstelacio
- French: constellation
- Galician: constelación
- → German: Konstellation
- Italian: costellazione
- Luxembourgish: Konstellatioun
- Occitan: constellacion
- Portuguese: constelação
- Romanian: constelație
- Spanish: constelación
References
- “constellatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "constellatio", 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)
- constellatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.