laudatio

Latin

Etymology

laudo +‎ -tio.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈdaː.ti.oː/, [ɫ̪äu̯ˈd̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lau̯ˈdat.t͡si.o/, [läu̯ˈd̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

laudātiō f (genitive laudātiōnis); third declension

1. commendation, praise
2. eulogy, panegyric

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	laudātiō	laudātiōnēs
genitive	laudātiōnis	laudātiōnum
dative	laudātiōnī	laudātiōnibus
accusative	laudātiōnem	laudātiōnēs
ablative	laudātiōne	laudātiōnibus
vocative	laudātiō	laudātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: laudation
• → Portuguese: laudação

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin laudatio.

Noun

laudatio f (uncountable)

1. commendation, praise

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin laudatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lauˈdatjo/ [lau̯ˈð̞a.t̪jo]
• Rhymes: -atjo
• Syllabification: lau‧da‧tio

Noun

laudatio f (plural laudatios)

1. praise

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “laudatio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10