designatio
Latin
Etymology
From dēsignō (“designate, describe”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.sɪŋˈnaː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪e.s̬iɲˈɲat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
dēsignātiō f (genitive dēsignātiōnis); third declension
- a designating, describing, marking out, specification
- 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 |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: designació
- English: designation
- French: désignation
- Galician: designación
- Italian: designazione
- Occitan: designacion
- Portuguese: designação
- Spanish: designación
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.