instauratio

Latin

Etymology

īnstaurō +‎ -tio

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.stau̯ˈraː.ti.oː/, [ĩːs̠t̪äu̯ˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.stau̯ˈrat.t͡si.o/, [inst̪äu̯ˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

īnstaurātiō f (genitive īnstaurātiōnis); third declension

1. the act of renewing; renewal, repetition
2. (more specifically) An Ancient Roman term referring to the redoing of a ceremony or ritual that has gone awry in some fashion, no matter how minor.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnstaurātiō	īnstaurātiōnēs
genitive	īnstaurātiōnis	īnstaurātiōnum
dative	īnstaurātiōnī	īnstaurātiōnibus
accusative	īnstaurātiōnem	īnstaurātiōnēs
ablative	īnstaurātiōne	īnstaurātiōnibus
vocative	īnstaurātiō	īnstaurātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: instauració
• French: instauration
• Galician: instauración
• Italian: instaurazione
• Portuguese: instauração
• Romanian: instaurație
• Spanish: instauración

References

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