designatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēsignō (“designate, describe”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /deː.siɡˈnaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ɪŋˈnäːt̪ioː]

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

Noun

dēsignātiō f (genitive dēsignātiōnis); third declension

a designating, describing, marking out, specification
a disposition, arrangement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs
Genitive	dēsignātiōnis	dēsignātiōnum
Dative	dēsignātiōnī	dēsignātiōnibus
Accusative	dēsignātiōnem	dēsignātiōnēs
Ablative	dēsignātiōne	dēsignātiōnibus
Vocative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: designació
English: designation
French: désignation
Galician: designación
Italian: designazione
Occitan: designacion
Portuguese: designação
Spanish: designación

References

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

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