cameratio

Latin

Etymology

camerō (“I vault or arch over”, perfect passive participial stem: camerāt-) +‎ -iō (“-ing”, suffix forming verbal nouns)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.meˈraː.ti.oː/, [kämɛˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.meˈrat.t͡si.o/, [kämeˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

camerātiō f (genitive camerātiōnis); third declension

1. (noun of action) an arching or vaulting
2. (concrete noun) a vault or arch
3. (by extension) a vaulted building

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	camerātiō	camerātiōnēs
genitive	camerātiōnis	camerātiōnum
dative	camerātiōnī	camerātiōnibus
accusative	camerātiōnem	camerātiōnēs
ablative	camerātiōne	camerātiōnibus
vocative	camerātiō	camerātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: cameration

References

• “cămĕrātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cămĕrātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 250/1.