limitatio

Latin

Etymology

From līmitō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

līmitātiō f (genitive līmitātiōnis); third declension

1. determination (fixing a boundary etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līmitātiō	līmitātiōnēs
Genitive	līmitātiōnis	līmitātiōnum
Dative	līmitātiōnī	līmitātiōnibus
Accusative	līmitātiōnem	līmitātiōnēs
Ablative	līmitātiōne	līmitātiōnibus
Vocative	līmitātiō	līmitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: limitació
• English: limitation
• French: limitation
• Galician: limitación
• Italian: limitazione
• Piedmontese: limitassion
• Portuguese: limitação
• Romanian: limitație
• Spanish: limitación

References

• “limitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limitatio 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)
• limitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.