coronatio

Latin

Etymology

corōnō (“to crown”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.roːˈnaː.ti.oː/, [kɔroːˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.roˈnat.t͡si.o/, [koroˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

corōnātiō m (genitive corōnātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) crowning, coronation
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 7.27:

     Si autem […] coronatione virilium pudendorum […] unum verum Deum […] colere se quisque contendat: non ideo peccat, quia non est colendus quem colit, sed quia colendum non ut colendus est colit.

     But if anyone insists that he worships the one true God […] by the putting of a wreath on the male organ, […] such a person does not sin because he worships One who ought not to be worshipped, but because he worships Him who ought to be worshipped in a way in which He ought not to be worshipped.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	corōnātiō	corōnātiōnēs
genitive	corōnātiōnis	corōnātiōnum
dative	corōnātiōnī	corōnātiōnibus
accusative	corōnātiōnem	corōnātiōnēs
ablative	corōnātiōne	corōnātiōnibus
vocative	corōnātiō	corōnātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: coronació
• → Italian: coronazione
• → Old French: coronacion
  • French: coronation
  • Norman: couronnâtion
  • → English: coronation
• → Portuguese: coroação
• → Romanian: coronație
• → Spanish: coronación

References

• “coronatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coronatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.