precatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *preḱ-

Proto-Italic *preks

Latin prex

Latin precor

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin precātiō

From precor + -tiō.

Noun

precātiō f (genitive precātiōnis); third declension

1. prayer, praying

   Synonyms: supplicātiō, supplicium, rogātiō, postulātum, petītiō, prex

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	precātiō	precātiōnēs
genitive	precātiōnis	precātiōnum
dative	precātiōnī	precātiōnibus
accusative	precātiōnem	precātiōnēs
ablative	precātiōne	precātiōnibus
vocative	precātiō	precātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: precation

References

• “precatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “precatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "precatio", 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)
• “precatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “precatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers