significatio

Latin

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Latin significō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin significātiō

From significō + -tiō.

Noun

significātiō f (genitive significātiōnis); third declension

1. signal, sign, mark, token
2. applause
3. meaning, import

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	significātiō	significātiōnēs
genitive	significātiōnis	significātiōnum
dative	significātiōnī	significātiōnibus
accusative	significātiōnem	significātiōnēs
ablative	significātiōne	significātiōnibus
vocative	significātiō	significātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: significació
• → French: signification
• Galician: significación
• Italian: significazione
• Portuguese: significação
• Romanian: semnificație
• Spanish: significación

References

• “significatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “significatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “significatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to allude to a person or thing (not alludere): significatione appellare aliquem
    
• significatio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016