corporatio

Latin

Etymology

corporō (“to make into a body”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kor.poˈraː.ti.oː/, [kɔrpɔˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.poˈrat.t͡si.o/, [korpoˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

corporātiō f (genitive corporātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) incarnation, the taking on of a body

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corporātiō	corporātiōnēs
Genitive	corporātiōnis	corporātiōnum
Dative	corporātiōnī	corporātiōnibus
Accusative	corporātiōnem	corporātiōnēs
Ablative	corporātiōne	corporātiōnibus
Vocative	corporātiō	corporātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: corporation
  • → Middle French: corporation
    • French: corporation
• → German: Korporation

References

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