computatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin putus

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 putō

Latin computō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin computātiō

From computō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

computātiō f (genitive computātiōnis); third declension

1. calculation, reckoning, computation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	computātiō	computātiōnēs
genitive	computātiōnis	computātiōnum
dative	computātiōnī	computātiōnibus
accusative	computātiōnem	computātiōnēs
ablative	computātiōne	computātiōnibus
vocative	computātiō	computātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: computació
• French: computation
• Galician: computación
• Italian: computazione
• Portuguese: computação
• Romanian: computație
• Spanish: computación

References

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