confoederatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• cōnfederātiō (Low Latin)

Etymology

From cōnfoederō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.foe̯.deˈraː.ti.oː/, [kõːfoe̯d̪ɛˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.fe.deˈrat.t͡si.o/, [koɱfed̪eˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnfoederātiō f (genitive cōnfoederātiōnis); third declension

1. a covenant, agreement

   Cōnfoederātiō Helvētica ― the Swiss Confederation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfoederātiō	cōnfoederātiōnēs
Genitive	cōnfoederātiōnis	cōnfoederātiōnum
Dative	cōnfoederātiōnī	cōnfoederātiōnibus
Accusative	cōnfoederātiōnem	cōnfoederātiōnēs
Ablative	cōnfoederātiōne	cōnfoederātiōnibus
Vocative	cōnfoederātiō	cōnfoederātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: confederació
• → Czech: konfederace
• → Danish: konføderation
• → Dutch: confederatie
• → German: Konföderation
• Italian: confederazione
• Old French: confederacie
  • → Middle English: confederacie, confidracie, confideracie, confedresie, confetrecie, confedersi
    • English: confederacy
• Old French: confederacion
  • → Middle English: confederacion, confideracion
    • English: confederation
  • Middle French: confédération
    • French: confédération, confœderation; confœdération
      • → Dutch: confederatie
      • → Polish: konfederacja
      • → Romanian: confederație
      • → Turkish: konfederasyon
• Portuguese: confederação
• → Russian: конфедера́ция (konfederácija)
  • → Kazakh: конфедерация (konfederasiä)
• Spanish: confederación
  • → Tagalog: kumpederasyón, kompederasyon

References

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