compilatio

Latin

Etymology

From compīlō (“snatch together, carry off”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kom.piːˈlaː.ti.oː/, [kɔmpiːˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.piˈlat.t͡si.o/, [kompiˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

compīlātiō f (genitive compīlātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of carrying off or snatching together; pillaging, plundering.
2. A compilation, collection (of documents).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compīlātiō	compīlātiōnēs
genitive	compīlātiōnis	compīlātiōnum
dative	compīlātiōnī	compīlātiōnibus
accusative	compīlātiōnem	compīlātiōnēs
ablative	compīlātiōne	compīlātiōnibus
vocative	compīlātiō	compīlātiōnēs

Related terms

• compīlātor
• compīlō

Descendants

• Catalan: compilació
• English: compilation
• French: compilation
• Italian: compilazione
• Portuguese: compilação
• Romanian: compilație
• Spanish: compilación

References

• “compilatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compilatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• compilatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.