delatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēferō (past participle dēlātus) + -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈlaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈlat.t͡si.o/, [d̪eˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlātiō f (genitive dēlātiōnis); third declension

1. accusation, denunciation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlātiō	dēlātiōnēs
Genitive	dēlātiōnis	dēlātiōnum
Dative	dēlātiōnī	dēlātiōnibus
Accusative	dēlātiōnem	dēlātiōnēs
Ablative	dēlātiōne	dēlātiōnibus
Vocative	dēlātiō	dēlātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: delation
• French: délation
• → Italian: delazione
• Portuguese: delação
• Spanish: delación

References

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