attestatio

Latin

Etymology

attestor (“bear witness to, attest, prove, confirm, corroborate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /at.tesˈtaː.ti.oː/, [ät̪ːɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.tesˈtat.t͡si.o/, [ät̪ːesˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

attestātiō f (genitive attestātiōnis); third declension

1. attestation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	attestātiō	attestātiōnēs
Genitive	attestātiōnis	attestātiōnum
Dative	attestātiōnī	attestātiōnibus
Accusative	attestātiōnem	attestātiōnēs
Ablative	attestātiōne	attestātiōnibus
Vocative	attestātiō	attestātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: atestació
• Middle French: attestation
  • French: attestation
  • → English: attestation
• Galician: atestación
• Italian: attestazione
• Portuguese: atestação
• Spanish: atestación

References

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