commiseratio

Latin

Etymology

commiseror (“to commiserate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kom.mi.seˈraː.ti.oː/, [kɔmːɪs̠ɛˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.mi.seˈrat.t͡si.o/, [komːis̬eˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

commiserātiō f (genitive commiserātiōnis); third declension

1. (rhetoric) an appeal to compassion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	commiserātiō	commiserātiōnēs
genitive	commiserātiōnis	commiserātiōnum
dative	commiserātiōnī	commiserātiōnibus
accusative	commiserātiōnem	commiserātiōnēs
ablative	commiserātiōne	commiserātiōnibus
vocative	commiserātiō	commiserātiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: commiserazione
• Spanish: conmiseración

References

• “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers