designatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-?

Proto-Indo-European *-nóm

Proto-Italic *segnom

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

Proto-Italic *segnāō

Latin signō

Latin dēsignō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dēsignātiō

From dēsignō (“designate, describe”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deː.sɪŋˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [de.s̬iɲˈɲat.t͡si.o]

Noun

dēsignātiō f (genitive dēsignātiōnis); third declension

1. a designating, describing, marking out, specification
2. a disposition, arrangement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs
genitive	dēsignātiōnis	dēsignātiōnum
dative	dēsignātiōnī	dēsignātiōnibus
accusative	dēsignātiōnem	dēsignātiōnēs
ablative	dēsignātiōne	dēsignātiōnibus
vocative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs

Related terms

• dēsignātē
• dēsignātor
• dēsignātus
• dēsignō
• signō

Descendants

• Catalan: designació
• English: designation
• French: désignation
• Galician: designación
• Italian: designazione
• Occitan: designacion
• Portuguese: designação
• Spanish: designación

References

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