benedictio

Latin

Etymology

From benedicō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɛ.nɛˈdɪk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [be.neˈd̪ik.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

benedictiō f (genitive benedictiōnis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) blessing
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) benediction
3. extolling, praising, lauding

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	benedictiō	benedictiōnēs
genitive	benedictiōnis	benedictiōnum
dative	benedictiōnī	benedictiōnibus
accusative	benedictiōnem	benedictiōnēs
ablative	benedictiōne	benedictiōnibus
vocative	benedictiō	benedictiōnēs

Antonyms

• maledictiō

Descendants

Descendants

• Old French: beneison, beneïson
  • → English: benison
• Old Galician-Portuguese: bẽeiçon, bẽeyçõn, bẽeyçom, beeyçon, beiçom, beyçom, beyçon, beiçon, beyzón (Old Galician), bẽeçõ, bençom, beençom, beemçom, bemçam, bençam, benção (Old Portuguese)
  • Galician: beizón
  • Portuguese: bênção
• → Proto-Brythonic: *bendiθ (see there for further descendants)
• → Catalan: benedicció (learned)
• → English: benediction
• → French: bénédiction (learned)
• → Galician: bendición (learned)
• → Old Irish: bendacht (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: benedizione (learned)
• → Portuguese: bendição (learned)
• → Romanian: benedicțiune (learned)
• → Old Spanish: bendicion (learned)
  • Spanish: bendición

References

• “benedictio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "benedictio", 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)
• benedictio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.