collocatio
Latin
Etymology
From collocō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kol.loˈkaː.ti.oː/, [kɔlːʲɔˈkäːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kol.loˈkat.t͡si.o/, [kolːoˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
collocātiō f (genitive collocātiōnis); third declension
- the act of putting together or setting up; arrangement, placing, collocation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | collocātiō | collocātiōnēs |
| Genitive | collocātiōnis | collocātiōnum |
| Dative | collocātiōnī | collocātiōnibus |
| Accusative | collocātiōnem | collocātiōnēs |
| Ablative | collocātiōne | collocātiōnibus |
| Vocative | collocātiō | collocātiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: col·locació (learned)
- → English: collocation (learned)
- → French: collocation (learned)
- → Polish: kolokacja
- → Galician: colocación (learned)
- → Italian: collocazione (learned)
- → Portuguese: colocação (learned)
- → Spanish: colocación (learned)
Further reading
- “collocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collocatio 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)
- collocatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette