coniugatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conjugātiō

Etymology

From coniugō +‎ -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek συζυγίᾱ (suzugíā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.i̯uˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [kɔni̯ʊˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.juˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [konjuˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

coniugātiō f (genitive coniugātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of combining, connecting or mixing together; mixture.
2. The etymological relationship of words.
3. (grammar) conjugation
4. syllogism

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coniugātiō	coniugātiōnēs
Genitive	coniugātiōnis	coniugātiōnum
Dative	coniugātiōnī	coniugātiōnibus
Accusative	coniugātiōnem	coniugātiōnēs
Ablative	coniugātiōne	coniugātiōnibus
Vocative	coniugātiō	coniugātiōnēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: conchugación
• Asturian: conxugación
• Catalan: conjugació
• → Danish: konjugation
• → English: conjugation
• → Esperanto: konjugacii
• → Finnish: konjugaatio
• French: conjugaison
• Galician: conxugación
• → German: Konjugation (dated: Conjugation, Conjugazion)
• → German Low German: Konjugatschoon
• Italian: coniugazione
• → Latvian: konjugācija
• → Lithuanian: konjugacija
• Ligurian: coniogaçión
• → Macedonian: конјугација (konjugacija)
• → Maltese: konjugazzjoni
• Norman: conjudgaison
• → Norwegian Bokmål: konjugasjon
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: konjugasjon
• Occitan: conjugason
• → Polish: koniugacja
• Portuguese: conjugação
• Romanian: conjugație
• → Russian: конъюга́ция (konʺjugácija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: конјугација

  Roman: konjugacija

• Sicilian: cunjugazziuni
• Spanish: conjugación
• → Slovene: konjugacija
• → Swedish: konjugation

Further reading

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