designatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēsignō (“designate, describe”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.siɡˈnaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠ɪŋˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.siɲˈɲat.t͡si.o/, [d̪es̬iɲˈɲät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēsignātiō f (genitive dēsignātiōnis); third declension

1. a designating, describing, marking out, specification
2. a disposition, arrangement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs
Genitive	dēsignātiōnis	dēsignātiōnum
Dative	dēsignātiōnī	dēsignātiōnibus
Accusative	dēsignātiōnem	dēsignātiōnēs
Ablative	dēsignātiōne	dēsignātiōnibus
Vocative	dēsignātiō	dēsignātiōnēs

Related terms

• dēsignātē
• dēsignātor
• dēsignātus
• dēsignō
• signō

Descendants

• Catalan: designació
• English: designation
• French: désignation
• Galician: designación
• Italian: designazione
• Occitan: designacion
• Portuguese: designação
• Spanish: designación

References

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