obligatio
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From obligō (“bind in obligation; restrain”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ob.liˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [ɔblʲɪˈɡäːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ob.liˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [obliˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]obligātiō f (genitive obligātiōnis); third declension
- binding; engaging, pledging, obligation, bond
- obligatory relationship
- document that confirms a bond or obligation
- (figuratively) entangling, ensnaring
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | obligātiō | obligātiōnēs |
| genitive | obligātiōnis | obligātiōnum |
| dative | obligātiōnī | obligātiōnibus |
| accusative | obligātiōnem | obligātiōnēs |
| ablative | obligātiōne | obligātiōnibus |
| vocative | obligātiō | obligātiōnēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: obligació
- Dutch: obligatie
- English: obligation
- French: obligation
- → Galician: obrigación (semi-learned)
- Irish: oibleagáid
- Italian: obbligazione
- Occitan: obligacion
- Polish: obligacja
- Portuguese: obrigação
- Romanian: obligație
- Russian: облигация (obligacija)
- Spanish: obligación
References
[edit]- “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obligatio 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)
- obligatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “obligatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers