certatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin certō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin certātiō

From certō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

certātiō f (genitive certātiōnis); third declension

1. striving, strife, combat

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	certātiō	certātiōnēs
genitive	certātiōnis	certātiōnum
dative	certātiōnī	certātiōnibus
accusative	certātiōnem	certātiōnēs
ablative	certātiōne	certātiōnibus
vocative	certātiō	certātiōnēs

References

• “certatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “certatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “certatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.