conservatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōnservō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.serˈu̯aː.ti.oː/, [kõːs̠ɛrˈu̯äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.serˈvat.t͡si.o/, [konserˈvät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnservātiō f (genitive cōnservātiōnis); third declension

1. a conservation, protection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnservātiō	cōnservātiōnēs
Genitive	cōnservātiōnis	cōnservātiōnum
Dative	cōnservātiōnī	cōnservātiōnibus
Accusative	cōnservātiōnem	cōnservātiōnēs
Ablative	cōnservātiōne	cōnservātiōnibus
Vocative	cōnservātiō	cōnservātiōnēs

Derived terms

• cōnservātor

Descendants

• Catalan: conservació
• English: conservation
• French: conservation
• Galician: conservación
• Italian: conservazione
• Occitan: conservacion
• Portuguese: conservação
• Romanian: conservație
• Russian: консерва́ция (konservácija)
• Spanish: conservación

References

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