coniuratio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conjūrātiō

Etymology

From coniūrō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.i̯uːˈraː.ti.oː/, [kɔni̯uːˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.juˈrat.t͡si.o/, [konjuˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

coniūrātiō f (genitive coniūrātiōnis); third declension

1. a swearing together
2. a conspiracy, plot; confederacy, band of conspirators

   Synonyms: cōnsēnsus, cōnspīrātiō, cōnsēnsiō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:

     Is, M. Messālā et M. Pupio Pīsōne cōnsulibus, rēgnī cupiditāte inductus coniūrātiōnem nōbilitātis fēcit, et cīvitātī persuāsit ut dē fīnibus suīs cum omnibus cōpiīs exīrent: perfacile esse, cum virtūte omnibus praestārent, tōtīus Galliae imperiō potīrī.

     He, with Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso being consuls, incited by a lust of power, formed a conspiracy amongst the nobility, and persuaded the people to come forth from their lands with all of their possessions, [saying] that it would be very easy, as they were all distinguished in valor, to acquire the supremacy over all of Gaul.

   • 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos:

     Hic autem vestram volumus excitatam pro religione constantiam adversus foedissimam in clericalem coelibatum coniurationem […]

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Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coniūrātiō	coniūrātiōnēs
genitive	coniūrātiōnis	coniūrātiōnum
dative	coniūrātiōnī	coniūrātiōnibus
accusative	coniūrātiōnem	coniūrātiōnēs
ablative	coniūrātiōne	coniūrātiōnibus
vocative	coniūrātiō	coniūrātiōnēs

Related terms

• coniūrātus
• coniūrō

Descendants

• Old French: conjuraison, conjureison, conjurison
  • Middle French: conjuraison, conjurison, conjuroison
  • → Middle English: conjurisoun, conjorison, conjureson, conjuresoun, conjurison, conjurisun, conjurson, conjursion, conjurysoun
• → Old French: conjuracion, conjuration
  • Middle French: conjuracion, conjuration
    • French: conjuration
  • → Middle English: conjuracioun, conjuraceoun, conjuracion, conjuracyoun
    • English: conjuration
• → Italian: congiurazione
• → Portuguese: conjuração
• → Romanian: conjurație
• → Spanish: conjuración

References

• “coniuratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coniuratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to form a conspiracy: coniurationem facere (Catil. 2. 4. 6)