vegetatio

Latin

Etymology

From vegetō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯e.ɡeˈtaː.ti.oː/, [u̯ɛɡɛˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈtat.t͡si.o/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

vegetātiō f (genitive vegetātiōnis); third declension

1. (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 […]

2. (New Latin, botany) vegetation (the process of vegetating)
3. (New Latin, botany) habit of a plant
   • 1853, August Grisebach, Bericht über die Leistungen in der geographischen und systematischen Botanik während des Jahres 1850‎^[1] (overall work in German), Berlin, →OCLC, page 88:

     Vegetatio erecta, cirrhis nullis, foliis plerumque pinnatis.

     Erect habit, no tendrils, leaves generally pinnate.

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

• → Esperanto: vegetaĵaro
• → Italian: vegetazione (via Late Latin)
• → Middle French: végétation (via Late Latin)
  • French: végétation
  • → English: vegetation
• → 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.