aemulatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• ēmulātiō, ēmulāciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From aemulor (“I rival, emulate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯.muˈlaː.ti.oː/, [äe̯mʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.muˈlat.t͡si.o/, [emuˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

aemulātiō f (genitive aemulātiōnis); third declension

1. The endeavor to be equal to or match another in something; emulation, ambition; rivalry, competition.
2. Jealousy, envy, malevolence.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aemulātiō	aemulātiōnēs
genitive	aemulātiōnis	aemulātiōnum
dative	aemulātiōnī	aemulātiōnibus
accusative	aemulātiōnem	aemulātiōnēs
ablative	aemulātiōne	aemulātiōnibus
vocative	aemulātiō	aemulātiōnēs

Synonyms

• (emulation): aemulātus, certāmen, zēlus
• (rivalry): aemulātus, certāmen, competītiō
• (jealousy): invidentia, invidia, simultās, zēlotypia, zēlus

Related terms

• aemulanter
• aemulātor
• aemulātrīx
• aemulātus
• aemulor
• aemulus

Descendants

• Catalan: emulació
• English: emulation
• French: émulation
• Italian: emulazione
• Portuguese: emulação
• Romanian: emulație
• Spanish: emulación

References

• “aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aemulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aemulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit