vegetatio
Latin
Etymology
From vegetō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯e.ɡeˈtaː.ti.oː/, [u̯ɛɡɛˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈtat.t͡si.o/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
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 […]
- […] ut ipse etiam fatīgātiōnem sedentāriam incessūs vegetātiōne discuterem, in pedēs dēsiliō […]
- (New Latin, botany) vegetation (the process of vegetating)
- (New Latin, botany) habit of a plant
- 1853, Grisebach, August, Bericht über die Leistungen in der geographischen und systematischen Botanik während des Jahres 1850 (in German), Berlin, OCLC 934916975, page 88:
- Vegetatio erecta, cirrhis nullis, foliis plerumque pinnatis.
- Erect habit, no tendrils, leaves generally pinnate.
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Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vegetātiō | vegetātiōnēs |
Genitive | vegetātiōnis | vegetātiōnum |
Dative | vegetātiōnī | vegetātiōnibus |
Accusative | vegetātiōnem | vegetātiōnēs |
Ablative | vegetātiōne | vegetātiōnibus |
Vocative | vegetātiō | vegetātiōnēs |
Descendants
- English: vegetation
- Esperanto: vegetaĵaro
- French: végétation
- Italian: vegetazione
- Portuguese: vegetação
- Romanian: vegetație
- Spanish: vegetación
- Swedish: vegetation
References
- “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