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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin consolatio. Doublet of consolation.

Noun edit

consolatio (plural consolationes)

  1. A ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals.

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From cōnsōlor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cōnsōlātiō f (genitive cōnsōlātiōnis); third declension

  1. consolation
    • 1986, Holy See, “Epistula II ad Corinthios 1:5 [2 Corinthians 1:5]”, in NRSV, transl., Nova Vulgata[1]:
      quoniam, sīcut abundant passiōnēs Chrīstī in nōbīs, ita per Chrīstum abundat et cōnsōlātiō nostra.
      For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.
  2. comfort

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnsōlātiō cōnsōlātiōnēs
Genitive cōnsōlātiōnis cōnsōlātiōnum
Dative cōnsōlātiōnī cōnsōlātiōnibus
Accusative cōnsōlātiōnem cōnsōlātiōnēs
Ablative cōnsōlātiōne cōnsōlātiōnibus
Vocative cōnsōlātiō cōnsōlātiōnēs

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References edit

  • consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • consolatio 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)
  • consolatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to afford no consolation: nihil habere consolationis
  • consolatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers