vegetatio

Latin

From vegetō +‎ -tiō.

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈtat.t͡si.o/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

vegetātiō f (genitive vegetātiōnis); third declension

(Late Latin, only once attested) enlivening, quickening, stimulation
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.2:
  […] ut ipse etiam fatīgātiōnem sedentāriam incessūs vegetātiōne discuterem, in pedēs dēsiliō […]
  […] in order to dispel the weariness of sitting by the stimulation of ambulation, I jump to my feet […]
(New Latin, botany) vegetation (the process of vegetating)
(New Latin, botany) habit of a plant
- 1853, August Grisebach, Bericht über die Leistungen in der geographischen und systematischen Botanik während des Jahres 1850‎ (overall work in German), Berlin, →OCLC, page 88:
  Vegetatio erecta, cirrhis nullis, foliis plerumque pinnatis.
  Erect habit, no tendrils, leaves generally pinnate.

Third-declension noun.

→ Esperanto: vegetaĵaro
→ Italian: vegetazione (via Late Latin)
→ Middle French: végétation (via Late Latin)
- French: végétation
- → English: vegetation
→ Portuguese: vegetação
→ Romanian: vegetație
→ Spanish: vegetación
→ Swedish: vegetation

“vegetatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
vegetatio 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)
vegetatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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