constellatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Old Latin com

Latin cum

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗrder.

Proto-Italic *stērlā

Latin stēlla

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiō

Latin cōnstēllātiō

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

Pronunciation

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

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.

	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, 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.