aemulatio

Latin

Alternative forms

ēmulātiō, ēmulāciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From aemulor (“I rival, emulate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯.mʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.muˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

aemulātiō f (genitive aemulātiōnis); third declension

The endeavor to be equal to or match another in something; emulation, ambition; rivalry, competition.
Jealousy, envy, malevolence.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aemulātiō	aemulātiōnēs
genitive	aemulātiōnis	aemulātiōnum
dative	aemulātiōnī	aemulātiōnibus
accusative	aemulātiōnem	aemulātiōnēs
ablative	aemulātiōne	aemulātiōnibus
vocative	aemulātiō	aemulātiōnēs

Synonyms

(emulation): aemulātus, certāmen, zēlus
(rivalry): aemulātus, certāmen, competītiō
(jealousy): invidentia, invidia, simultās, zēlotypia, zēlus

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: emulació
English: emulation
French: émulation
Italian: emulazione
Portuguese: emulação
Romanian: emulație
Spanish: emulación

References

“aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
aemulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit