collocatio

Latin

Etymology

From collocō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kol.loˈkaː.ti.oː/, [kɔlːʲɔˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kol.loˈkat.t͡si.o/, [kolːoˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

collocātiō f (genitive collocātiōnis); third declension

1. the act of putting together or setting up; arrangement, placing, collocation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	collocātiō	collocātiōnēs
genitive	collocātiōnis	collocātiōnum
dative	collocātiōnī	collocātiōnibus
accusative	collocātiōnem	collocātiōnēs
ablative	collocātiōne	collocātiōnibus
vocative	collocātiō	collocātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: col·locació (learned)
• → English: collocation (learned)
• → French: collocation (learned)
  • → Polish: kolokacja
• → Galician: colocación (learned)
• → Italian: collocazione (learned)
• → Portuguese: colocação (learned)
• → Spanish: colocación (learned)

Further reading

• “collocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collocatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• collocatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.