corporatio

Latin

Etymology

corporō (“to make into a body”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kor.poˈraː.ti.oː/, [kɔrpɔˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.poˈrat.t͡si.o/, [korpoˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

corporātiō f (genitive corporātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) incarnation, the taking on of a body

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	corporātiō	corporātiōnēs
genitive	corporātiōnis	corporātiōnum
dative	corporātiōnī	corporātiōnibus
accusative	corporātiōnem	corporātiōnēs
ablative	corporātiōne	corporātiōnibus
vocative	corporātiō	corporātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: corporació
• → English: corporation
• → Galician: corporación
• → German: Korporation
• → Italian: corporazione
• → Middle French: corporation
  • French: corporation
• → Portuguese: corporação
• → Romanian: corporație
• → Spanish: corporación

References

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