statio

Latin

Etymology

From the verb stō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.ti.oː/

Noun

statiō f (genitive statiōnis); third declension

1. outpost, picket
2. station
3. watch
4. a standing, standing firm, position

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	statiō	statiōnēs
genitive	statiōnis	statiōnum
dative	statiōnī	statiōnibus
accusative	statiōnem	statiōnēs
ablative	statiōne	statiōnibus
vocative	statiō	statiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: estación
• Catalan: estació
• Corsican: staghjone
• Dalmatian: stasaun
• English: station
• French: station
• Friulian: stagjon
• Galician: estación
• Indonesian: stasiun
• Italian: stagione, stazione, stazzo, stazzone

• Malay: stesen
• Neapolitan: stazzione
• Occitan: estacion
• Portuguese: estação
• Romanian: stație
• Romansch: stagiun, stizun
• Sicilian: stazzioni, stazzuni
• Spanish: estación
• Venetian: staçion, stagion, stajon, staxon,

References

• statio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• statio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “statio”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “statio” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the cohort on guard-duty: cohors, quae in statione est
    
  • to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis