coniugatio

Latin

Alternative forms

conjugātiō

Etymology

From coniugō +‎ -tiō. In its grammatical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek συζυγίᾱ (suzugíā), earlier called dēclīnātiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.jʊˈɡaː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.juˈɡat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

coniugātiō f (genitive coniugātiōnis); third declension

The act of combining, connecting or mixing together; mixture.
The etymological relationship of words.
(grammar) conjugation
syllogism

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coniugātiō	coniugātiōnēs
genitive	coniugātiōnis	coniugātiōnum
dative	coniugātiōnī	coniugātiōnibus
accusative	coniugātiōnem	coniugātiōnēs
ablative	coniugātiōne	coniugātiōnibus
vocative	coniugātiō	coniugātiōnēs

Descendants

Aragonese: conchugación
Asturian: conxugación
Catalan: conjugació
→ Danish: konjugation
→ Dutch: conjugatie
→ English: conjugation
→ Esperanto: konjugacio
→ Finnish: konjugaatio
French: conjugaison
Galician: conxugación
→ German: Konjugation (dated: Conjugation, Conjugazion)
→ German Low German: Konjugatschoon
Italian: coniugazione
→ Latvian: konjugācija
→ Lithuanian: konjugacija
Ligurian: coniogaçión
→ Macedonian: конјугација (konjugacija)
→ Maltese: konjugazzjoni
Norman: conjudgaison
→ Norwegian Bokmål: konjugasjon
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: konjugasjon
Occitan: conjugason
→ Polish: koniugacja
Portuguese: conjugação
Romanian: conjugație
→ Russian: конъюга́ция (konʺjugácija)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: конјугација

Roman: konjugacija
Sicilian: cunjugazziuni
Spanish: conjugación
→ Slovene: konjugacija
→ Swedish: konjugation

Further reading

“coniugatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
conjugatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“coniugatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers