administratio

From administrō (“aid, assist”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nisˈtraː.ti.oː/, [äd̪mɪnɪs̠ˈt̪räːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nisˈtrat.t͡si.o/, [äd̪minisˈt̪rät̪ː͡s̪io]

administrātiō f (genitive administrātiōnis); third declension

1. administration, management, government (of a city, body)
2. the handling, operation (of an affair)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.

     When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

Third-declension noun.

• administer
• administra
• administrātor
• administrō

• Catalan: administració
• English: administration
• French: administration
• Galician: administración
• Italian: amministrazione
• Occitan: administracion
• Portuguese: administração
• Romanian: administrație
• Russian: администра́ция (administrácija)
• Spanish: administración

• “administratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “administratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administratio 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)
• administratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.