legatio

Latin

Etymology

From lēgō (“send with a commission”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [ɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [leˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

lēgātiō f (genitive lēgātiōnis); third declension

1. ambassador (office, not person)
2. embassy
3. legation
4. deputy command
5. donation, bequest (medieval)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lēgātiō	lēgātiōnēs
Genitive	lēgātiōnis	lēgātiōnum
Dative	lēgātiōnī	lēgātiōnibus
Accusative	lēgātiōnem	lēgātiōnēs
Ablative	lēgātiōne	lēgātiōnibus
Vocative	lēgātiō	lēgātiōnēs

Related terms

• lēgātōrius
• lēgātum
• lēgātus
• lēgō

Descendants

• English: legation
• French: légation
• Italian: legazione
• Portuguese: legação
• Spanish: legación

References

• “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “legatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• legatio 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)
• legatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• legatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “legatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill