communicatio

Latin

Etymology

From commūnicō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

commūnicātiō f (genitive commūnicātiōnis); third declension

1. sharing, imparting
2. partaking
3. fellowship
4. (Medieval Latin) communication

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	commūnicātiō	commūnicātiōnēs
Genitive	commūnicātiōnis	commūnicātiōnum
Dative	commūnicātiōnī	commūnicātiōnibus
Accusative	commūnicātiōnem	commūnicātiōnēs
Ablative	commūnicātiōne	commūnicātiōnibus
Vocative	commūnicātiō	commūnicātiōnēs

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Catalan: comunicació
• Dutch: communicatie
• English: communication
• French: communication
• Galician: comunicación
• German: Kommunikation
• Hunsrik: Kommunikazion
• Italian: comunicazione
• Occitan: comunicacion
• Portuguese: comunicação
• Romanian: comunicație
• Russian: коммуника́ция (kommunikácija)
• Spanish: comunicación

References

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