meditatio
Latin
Etymology
From meditor (“to think or reflect upon, meditate”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈtaː.ti.oː/, [mɛd̪ɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈtat.t͡si.o/, [med̪iˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
meditātiō f (genitive meditātiōnis); third declension
- The act of thinking over something, contemplation, meditation; thought, idea.
- The act of planning or devising.
- (by extension) Preparation for something; intention.
- (by extension) Exercise or practice in something, study, rehearsal, custom, habit.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | meditātiō | meditātiōnēs |
| Genitive | meditātiōnis | meditātiōnum |
| Dative | meditātiōnī | meditātiōnibus |
| Accusative | meditātiōnem | meditātiōnēs |
| Ablative | meditātiōne | meditātiōnibus |
| Vocative | meditātiō | meditātiōnēs |
Derived terms
- meditātiunculā
Related terms
- meditābundus
- medtāmen
- medtāmentum
- meditātē
- meditātus
- meditātīvus
- meditātor
- meditātōrium
- meditor
Descendants
- Catalan: meditació
- English: meditation
- French: méditation
- → Romanian: meditație
- → Turkish: meditasyon
- Galician: meditación
- Hungarian: meditáció
- Polish: medytacja
- Portuguese: meditação
- Russian: медитация (meditacija)
- Spanish: meditación
References
- “meditatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meditatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meditatio 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)
- meditatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette