provocatio
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]prōvocātiō f (genitive prōvocātiōnis); third declension
- (Post-Augustan) challenge (to combat)
- (Late Latin) stimulus, provocation, encouragement
- (legal) appeal
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prōvocātiō | prōvocātiōnēs |
| genitive | prōvocātiōnis | prōvocātiōnum |
| dative | prōvocātiōnī | prōvocātiōnibus |
| accusative | prōvocātiōnem | prōvocātiōnēs |
| ablative | prōvocātiōne | prōvocātiōnibus |
| vocative | prōvocātiō | prōvocātiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: provocació
- → English: provocation
- → Finnish: provokaatio
- French: provocation
- → German: Provokation
- Italian: provocazione
- Portuguese: provocação
- Romanian: provocație
- → Russian: провокация (provokacija)
- Spanish: provocación
References
[edit]- “provocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “provocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- provocatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “provocatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “provocatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin