delegatio

Latin

Etymology

dēlēgō (“to assign, delegate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.leːˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.leˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [d̪eleˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēlēgātiō f (genitive dēlēgātiōnis); third declension

1. an assignment (of debt), substitution
2. delegation of one person by another

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēlēgātiō	dēlēgātiōnēs
genitive	dēlēgātiōnis	dēlēgātiōnum
dative	dēlēgātiōnī	dēlēgātiōnibus
accusative	dēlēgātiōnem	dēlēgātiōnēs
ablative	dēlēgātiōne	dēlēgātiōnibus
vocative	dēlēgātiō	dēlēgātiōnēs

References

• “delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers