detestatio

Latin

Etymology

From dētestō +‎ -tiō, from the verb detestari.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.tesˈtaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːt̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.tesˈtat.t͡si.o/, [d̪et̪esˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dētestātiō f (genitive dētestātiōnis); third declension

1. execration (solemn curse)
2. detestation
3. renunciation (formal)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dētestātiō	dētestātiōnēs
Genitive	dētestātiōnis	dētestātiōnum
Dative	dētestātiōnī	dētestātiōnibus
Accusative	dētestātiōnem	dētestātiōnēs
Ablative	dētestātiōne	dētestātiōnibus
Vocative	dētestātiō	dētestātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: détestation
• Italian: detestazione
• Portuguese: detestação
• Romanian: detestație
• Spanish: detestación

References

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