contemplatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• contemplāciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From contemplor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.temˈplaː.ti.oː/, [kɔn̪t̪ɛmˈpɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.temˈplat.t͡si.o/, [kon̪t̪emˈplät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

contemplātiō f (genitive contemplātiōnis); third declension

1. contemplation
2. survey

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contemplātiō	contemplātiōnēs
genitive	contemplātiōnis	contemplātiōnum
dative	contemplātiōnī	contemplātiōnibus
accusative	contemplātiōnem	contemplātiōnēs
ablative	contemplātiōne	contemplātiōnibus
vocative	contemplātiō	contemplātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: contemplació
• → English: contemplation
• → French: contemplation
• → Galician: contemplación
• → Italian: contemplazione
• → Occitan: contemplacion
• → Polish: kontemplacja
• → Portuguese: contemplação
• → Romanian: contemplație
• → Spanish: contemplación

References

• “contemplatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contemplatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contemplatio 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)
• contemplatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • theoretical, speculative philosophy: philosophia, quae in rerum contemplatione versatur, or quae artis praeceptis continetur