ablaqueatio

Latin

Etymology

From ablaqueō (“loosen the soil around a tree”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.la.kʷeˈaː.ti.oː/, [äbɫ̪äkʷeˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.la.kweˈat.t͡si.o/, [äbläkweˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ablaqueātiō f (genitive ablaqueātiōnis); third declension

1. The process or act of digging or loosening the soil around the roots of a tree.
2. The trench made by digging of the soil around the tree.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ablaqueātiō	ablaqueātiōnēs
genitive	ablaqueātiōnis	ablaqueātiōnum
dative	ablaqueātiōnī	ablaqueātiōnibus
accusative	ablaqueātiōnem	ablaqueātiōnēs
ablative	ablaqueātiōne	ablaqueātiōnibus
vocative	ablaqueātiō	ablaqueātiōnēs

Related terms

• ablaqueātus
• ablaqueō

Descendants

• English: ablaqueation
• Italian: ablaqueazione
• → Portuguese: ablaqueação
• Spanish: ablaqueación

References

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