compilatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin pīla

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin pīlō

Latin compīlō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin compīlātiō

From compīlō (“snatch together, carry off”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.piːˈɫaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.piˈlat.t͡si.o]

Noun

compīlātiō f (genitive compīlātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of carrying off or snatching together; pillaging, plundering.
2. A compilation, collection (of documents).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compīlātiō	compīlātiōnēs
genitive	compīlātiōnis	compīlātiōnum
dative	compīlātiōnī	compīlātiōnibus
accusative	compīlātiōnem	compīlātiōnēs
ablative	compīlātiōne	compīlātiōnibus
vocative	compīlātiō	compīlātiōnēs

Related terms

• compīlātor
• compīlō

Descendants

• Catalan: compilació
• English: compilation
• French: compilation
• Italian: compilazione
• Portuguese: compilação
• Romanian: compilație
• Spanish: compilación

References

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