delegatio

Latin

Etymology

dēlēgō (“to assign, delegate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /deː.leːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ioː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.leˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [d̪eleˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlēgātiō f (genitive dēlēgātiōnis); third declension

an assignment (of debt), substitution
delegation of one person by another

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlēgātiō	dēlēgātiōnēs
Genitive	dēlēgātiōnis	dēlēgātiōnum
Dative	dēlēgātiōnī	dēlēgātiōnibus
Accusative	dēlēgātiōnem	dēlēgātiōnēs
Ablative	dēlēgātiōne	dēlēgātiōnibus
Vocative	dēlēgātiō	dēlēgātiōnēs

References

“delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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