meditatio

Latin

Etymology

From meditor (“to think or reflect upon, meditate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈtaː.ti.oː/, [mɛd̪ɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈtat.t͡si.o/, [med̪iˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

meditātiō f (genitive meditātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of thinking over something, contemplation, meditation; thought, idea.
2. The act of planning or devising.
3. (by extension) Preparation for something; intention.
4. (by extension) Exercise or practice in something, study, rehearsal, custom, habit.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meditātiō	meditātiōnēs
Genitive	meditātiōnis	meditātiōnum
Dative	meditātiōnī	meditātiōnibus
Accusative	meditātiōnem	meditātiōnēs
Ablative	meditātiōne	meditātiōnibus
Vocative	meditātiō	meditātiōnēs

Derived terms

• meditātiunculā

Related terms

• meditābundus
• medtāmen
• medtāmentum
• meditātē
• meditātus
• meditātīvus
• meditātor
• meditātōrium
• meditor

Descendants

• Catalan: meditació
• English: meditation
• French: méditation
  • → Romanian: meditație
  • → Turkish: meditasyon
• Galician: meditación
• Hungarian: meditáció
• Polish: medytacja
• Portuguese: meditação
• Russian: медитация (meditacija)
• Spanish: meditación

References

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