rogatio

Latin

Etymology

From rogō (“ask; request”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /roˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [rɔˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /roˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [roˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

rogātiō f (genitive rogātiōnis); third declension

1. (law) An inquiry or proposal to the people for passing a law or decree; a proposed law, decree or bill.

   Synonym: rogitātiō

2. A question, interrogation, questioning.

   Synonym: rogāmentum

3. An asking, demanding; prayer, entreaty, request; invitation.

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rogātiō	rogātiōnēs
Genitive	rogātiōnis	rogātiōnum
Dative	rogātiōnī	rogātiōnibus
Accusative	rogātiōnem	rogātiōnēs
Ablative	rogātiōne	rogātiōnibus
Vocative	rogātiō	rogātiōnēs

Derived terms

• rogātiuncula
• subrogātiō

Related terms

• rogāmentum
• rogātor
• rogātus
• rogitātiō
• rogitō
• rogō

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Old French: rovaison
    • French: rouaisouns (“name of a festival”) (Normandy)
  • Old Occitan: roazó
  • Portuguese: rogação
  • Romanian: rugăciune
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: rogació
  • → English: rogation
  • → French: rogation
  • → Italian: rogazione
  • → Spanish: rogación
  • → Venetian: rogažion

References

• “rogatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rogatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rogatio 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)
• rogatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring a bill before the notice of the people: legem, rogationem promulgare (Liv. 33. 46)
    
• “rogatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rogatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin