procreatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin pro-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic [Term?]

Latin creo

Latin prōcreō

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 prōcreātiō

From prōcreō + -tiō.

Noun

prōcreātiō f (genitive prōcreātiōnis); third declension

1. sexual act of begetting, procreating
2. offspring, progeny
3. (Late Latin) produce, fruit of the land (agricultural goods)
4. (Medieval Latin) act of naming of a professional

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōcreātiō	prōcreātiōnēs
genitive	prōcreātiōnis	prōcreātiōnum
dative	prōcreātiōnī	prōcreātiōnibus
accusative	prōcreātiōnem	prōcreātiōnēs
ablative	prōcreātiōne	prōcreātiōnibus
vocative	prōcreātiō	prōcreātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: procreació
• → Dutch: procreatie
• → Old French: procreacion
  • Middle French: procréation
    • French: procréation
      • → Romanian: procreație
  • → English: procreation
• → Italian: procreazione
• → Spanish: procreación

References

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