donatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom

Proto-Italic *dōnom

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Proto-Italic *dōnāō?

Latin dono

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tio

Latin donatio

From dōnāre, dōnō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [doːˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [doˈnat.t͡si.o]

Noun

dōnātiō f (genitive dōnātiōnis); third declension

1. A donation, gift
2. An instance of giving, presenting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dōnātiō	dōnātiōnēs
genitive	dōnātiōnis	dōnātiōnum
dative	dōnātiōnī	dōnātiōnibus
accusative	dōnātiōnem	dōnātiōnēs
ablative	dōnātiōne	dōnātiōnibus
vocative	dōnātiō	dōnātiōnēs

Related terms

• dō
• dōnātīvum
• dōnō
• dōnum

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: doaçon
  • Galician: doazón
  • Portuguese: doação

Borrowings

• → Albanian: dhuratë (ancient borrowing)
• → Asturian: donación
• → Catalan: donació
• → Middle French: donation
  • French: donation
    • → Romanian: donație
  • → Middle English: donacion, donation
    • English: donation
• → German: Donation
• → Italian: donazione
• → Macedonian: донација (donacija)
• → Norwegian: donasjon
• → Polish: donacja
• → Serbo-Croatian: донација, donacija
• → Slovene: donacija
• → Spanish: donación
• → Swedish: donation

References

• “donatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “donatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "donatio", 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)
• “donatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “donatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin