gubernatio

Latin

Etymology

gubernō +‎ -tiō

Noun

gubernātiō f (genitive gubernātiōnis); third declension

1. (nautical) steering, pilotage
2. direction, control
3. management, government

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gubernātiō	gubernātiōnēs
genitive	gubernātiōnis	gubernātiōnum
dative	gubernātiōnī	gubernātiōnibus
accusative	gubernātiōnem	gubernātiōnēs
ablative	gubernātiōne	gubernātiōnibus
vocative	gubernātiō	gubernātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: governació
• Galician: gobernación
• → Middle English: gubernacion
  • English: gubernation
• Portuguese: governação
• Spanish: gobernación

References

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