ligatio

Latin

Etymology

From ligō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ligātiō f (genitive ligātiōnis); third declension

1. binding, bandage

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ligātiō	ligātiōnēs
genitive	ligātiōnis	ligātiōnum
dative	ligātiōnī	ligātiōnibus
accusative	ligātiōnem	ligātiōnēs
ablative	ligātiōne	ligātiōnibus
vocative	ligātiō	ligātiōnēs

Related terms

• ligō

Descendants

• → Catalan: lligació (semi-learned)
• → Italian: ligazione
• Occitan: ligason
• Old French: liaison
  • French: liaison
    • → English: liaison
• Old Occitan: liazó, liazon
• → Portuguese: ligação (learned)
• → Spanish: ligazón (semi-learned)
• → Spanish: ligación
• → English: ligation

References

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