consolatio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consolatio. Doublet of consolation.

Noun

consolatio (plural consolationes)

1. A ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals.

Anagrams

• iso-octanol, isooctanol

Latin

Etymology

From cōnsōlor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.soːˈlaː.ti.oː/, [kõːs̠oːˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.soˈlat.t͡si.o/, [konsoˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnsōlātiō f (genitive cōnsōlātiōnis); third declension

1. consolation
   • 1986, Holy See, “Epistula II ad Corinthios 1:5 [2 Corinthians 1:5]”, in NRSV, transl., Nova Vulgata‎^[1]:

     quoniam, sīcut abundant passiōnēs Chrīstī in nōbīs, ita per Chrīstum abundat et cōnsōlātiō nostra.

     For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.

2. comfort

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnsōlātiō	cōnsōlātiōnēs
genitive	cōnsōlātiōnis	cōnsōlātiōnum
dative	cōnsōlātiōnī	cōnsōlātiōnibus
accusative	cōnsōlātiōnem	cōnsōlātiōnēs
ablative	cōnsōlātiōne	cōnsōlātiōnibus
vocative	cōnsōlātiō	cōnsōlātiōnēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: consolación
• Asturian: consolación
• Catalan: consolació
• Corsican: consolazione, cunsolazione, cunsulazione
• English: consolation
• Extremaduran: consolación
• French: consolation
• Friulian: consolazion
• Galician: consolación
• Italian: consolazione
• Ligurian: consolaçión
• Maltese: konsolazzjoni
• Mirandese: cunsolaçon
• Occitan: consolacion
• Piedmontese: cunsulassiun
• Portuguese: consolação
• Spanish: consolación
• Venetan: consolaçión, consolasión

References

• “consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “consolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• consolatio 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)
• consolatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to afford no consolation: nihil habere consolationis
    
• “consolatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers