foederatio

Latin

Etymology

From foederō (“to sign a treaty, an agreement”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /foe̯.deˈraː.ti.oː/, [foe̯d̪ɛˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe.deˈrat.t͡si.o/, [fed̪eˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

foederātiō f (genitive foederātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) federation, treaty

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	foederātiō	foederātiōnēs
Genitive	foederātiōnis	foederātiōnum
Dative	foederātiōnī	foederātiōnibus
Accusative	foederātiōnem	foederātiōnēs
Ablative	foederātiōne	foederātiōnibus
Vocative	foederātiō	foederātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: federació
• → English: federation
• French: fédération
• Galician: federación
• → German: Föderation
• Italian: federazione
• Portuguese: federação
• Romanian: federație
• Russian: федера́ция (federácija)
• Spanish: federación

References

• “foederatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foederatio 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)