basiatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin bāsium

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin bāsiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin bāsiātiō

From bāsiō (“give a kiss”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baː.siˈaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ba.s̬iˈat.t͡si.o]

Noun

bāsiātiō f (genitive bāsiātiōnis); third declension

1. (poetic) a kissing; kiss.
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 7.1:

     Quaeris, quot mihi bāsiātiōnēs

     You ask how many kisses

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bāsiātiō	bāsiātiōnēs
genitive	bāsiātiōnis	bāsiātiōnum
dative	bāsiātiōnī	bāsiātiōnibus
accusative	bāsiātiōnem	bāsiātiōnēs
ablative	bāsiātiōne	bāsiātiōnibus
vocative	bāsiātiō	bāsiātiōnēs

Synonyms

• (kiss): bāsium, ōsculum, philēma, suavium
• (kissing): ōsculātiō, suāviātiō

Related terms

• bāsiātor
• bāsiō
• bāsiolum
• bāsium

References

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