constellatio

Latin

Etymology

From cum (“together”) +‎ stēlla (“star”) +‎ -ātiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.steːlˈlaː.ti.oː/, [kõːs̠t̪eːlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.stelˈlat.t͡si.o/, [konst̪elˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnstēllātiō f (genitive cōnstēllātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a collection of stars supposed to exert an influence upon human affairs, a constellation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnstēllātiō	cōnstēllātiōnēs
Genitive	cōnstēllātiōnis	cōnstēllātiōnum
Dative	cōnstēllātiōnī	cōnstēllātiōnibus
Accusative	cōnstēllātiōnem	cōnstēllātiōnēs
Ablative	cōnstēllātiōne	cōnstēllātiōnibus
Vocative	cōnstēllātiō	cōnstēllātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: constel·lació
• English: constellation
• Esperanto: konstelacio
• French: constellation
• Galician: constelación
• → German: Konstellation
• Italian: costellazione
• Luxembourgish: Konstellatioun
• Occitan: constellacion
• Portuguese: constelação
• Romanian: constelație
• Spanish: constelación

References

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