devotatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti

Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō

Latin voveō

Latin dēvoveō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

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 -tō

Latin dēvōtō

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 dēvōtātiō

From dēvōtō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.woːˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.voˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

dēvōtātiō f (genitive dēvōtātiōnis); third declension

1. consecration
2. vowing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēvōtātiō	dēvōtātiōnēs
genitive	dēvōtātiōnis	dēvōtātiōnum
dative	dēvōtātiōnī	dēvōtātiōnibus
accusative	dēvōtātiōnem	dēvōtātiōnēs
ablative	dēvōtātiōne	dēvōtātiōnibus
vocative	dēvōtātiō	dēvōtātiōnēs

Descendants

• Portuguese: devotação
• Romanian: devotațiune

References

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