collocatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.

Proto-Italic *stlokos?

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin locō

Latin collocō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin collocātiō

From collocō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔl.lɔˈkaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kol.loˈkat.t͡si.o]

Noun

collocātiō f (genitive collocātiōnis); third declension

1. the act of putting together or setting up; arrangement, placing, collocation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	collocātiō	collocātiōnēs
genitive	collocātiōnis	collocātiōnum
dative	collocātiōnī	collocātiōnibus
accusative	collocātiōnem	collocātiōnēs
ablative	collocātiōne	collocātiōnibus
vocative	collocātiō	collocātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: col·locació (learned)
• → English: collocation (learned)
• → French: collocation (learned)
  • → Polish: kolokacja
• → Galician: colocación (learned)
• → Italian: collocazione (learned)
• → Portuguese: colocação (learned)
• → Spanish: colocación (learned)

Further reading

• “collocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "collocatio", 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)
• “collocatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.