abdicatio

Latin

Etymology

From abdicō (“deniy, refuse; renounce”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.diˈkaː.ti.oː/, [äbd̪ɪˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.diˈkat.t͡si.o/, [äbd̪iˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

abdicātiō f (genitive abdicātiōnis); third declension

1. a renunciation
2. action of disowning
3. abdication

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abdicātiō	abdicātiōnēs
Genitive	abdicātiōnis	abdicātiōnum
Dative	abdicātiōnī	abdicātiōnibus
Accusative	abdicātiōnem	abdicātiōnēs
Ablative	abdicātiōne	abdicātiōnibus
Vocative	abdicātiō	abdicātiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: abdicación
• Catalan: abdicació
• English: abdication
• French: abdication
  • → Bulgarian: абдика́ция (abdikácija)
  • → Dutch: abdicatie
    • Afrikaans: abdikasie
    • → Indonesian: abdikasi
    • → Malay: abdikasi
• → Galician: abdicación
• Italian: abdicazione
• Norwegian Bokmål: abdikasjon
• → Portuguese: abdicação
• Romanian: abdicațiune
• Spanish: abdicación

References

• “abdicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abdicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abdicatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “abdicatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “abdicatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.