excommunicatio

Latin

Etymology

excommūnicō (perfect passive participial stem: excommūnicāt-) +‎ -iō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.skom.muː.niˈkaː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠kɔmːuːnɪˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.skom.mu.niˈkat.t͡si.o/, [ekskomːuniˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

excommūnicātiō f (genitive excommūnicātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin, Christianity) excommunication (expulsion from the Christian communion)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	excommūnicātiō	excommūnicātiōnēs
Genitive	excommūnicātiōnis	excommūnicātiōnum
Dative	excommūnicātiōnī	excommūnicātiōnibus
Accusative	excommūnicātiōnem	excommūnicātiōnēs
Ablative	excommūnicātiōne	excommūnicātiōnibus
Vocative	excommūnicātiō	excommūnicātiōnēs

Synonyms

• (excommunication): excommūniō (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• excommūnicātiō ā pāce
• excommūnicātiō ob dēbita nōn soluta
• mājor excommūnicātiō
• minor excommūnicātiō

Descendants

• → English: excommunication
• → French: excommunication
• → Italian: scomunicazione
• → Romanian: excomunicație

References

• “excommūnĭcātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• excommunicatio 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)
• excommūnĭcātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 619/3.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “excommunicatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 389/1