confirmatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfirmō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.firˈmaː.ti.oː/, [kõːfɪrˈmäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.firˈmat.t͡si.o/, [koɱfirˈmät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnfirmātiō f (genitive cōnfirmātiōnis); third declension

1. confirmation, verification
2. corroboration
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) confirmation (sacrament)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfirmātiō	cōnfirmātiōnēs
Genitive	cōnfirmātiōnis	cōnfirmātiōnum
Dative	cōnfirmātiōnī	cōnfirmātiōnibus
Accusative	cōnfirmātiōnem	cōnfirmātiōnēs
Ablative	cōnfirmātiōne	cōnfirmātiōnibus
Vocative	cōnfirmātiō	cōnfirmātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: confirmació
• → Danish: konfirmation
• → Dutch: confirmatie
• → English: confirmation
• → Finnish: konfirmaatio
• French: confirmation
• Galician: confirmación
• → German: Konfirmation
• → Hunsrik: Konfirmazion
• Italian: confermazione
• → Luxembourgish: Confirmatioun
• Norman: confirmâtion
• Portuguese: confirmação
• Romanian: confirmație
• → Russian: конфирма́ция (konfirmácija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: konfirmacija
• → Slovak: konfirmácia
• Spanish: confirmación

References

• “confirmatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “confirmatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• confirmatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• confirmatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.