assignatio

Latin

Etymology

From assignō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /as.siɡˈnaː.ti.oː/, [äs̠ːɪŋˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /as.siɲˈɲat.t͡si.o/, [äsːiɲˈɲät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

assignātiō f (genitive assignātiōnis); third declension

1. marking, showing, assignment, allotment, allocation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	assignātiō	assignātiōnēs
Genitive	assignātiōnis	assignātiōnum
Dative	assignātiōnī	assignātiōnibus
Accusative	assignātiōnem	assignātiōnēs
Ablative	assignātiōne	assignātiōnibus
Vocative	assignātiō	assignātiōnēs

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: assignació (learned)
• → French: assignation (learned)
• → Galician: asignación (learned)
• → Italian: assegnazione (learned)
• → Polish: asygnacja
• → Portuguese: assinação (learned)
• → Romanian: asemnațiune (learned)
• → Russian: ассигна́ция (assignácija) (learned)
  • → Yiddish: אַסיגנאַציע (asignatsye), סיגנאַציע (signatsye)
  • → Persian: اسکناس (eskenâs)
• → Spanish: asignación (learned)

References

• “assignatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assignatio 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)
• assignatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assignatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers