exhortatio

Latin

Etymology

exhortor +‎ -tiō

Noun

exhortātiō f (genitive exhortātiōnis); third declension

  1. exhortation, encouragement
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.21:
      Diūtius tē morārī nōlō; nōn est enim tibi exhortātiōne opus.
      I don’t want to keep you any longer; truly, you have no need for encouragement.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative exhortātiō exhortātiōnēs
genitive exhortātiōnis exhortātiōnum
dative exhortātiōnī exhortātiōnibus
accusative exhortātiōnem exhortātiōnēs
ablative exhortātiōne exhortātiōnibus
vocative exhortātiō exhortātiōnēs

Descendants

  • English: exhortation
  • French: exhortation
  • Italian: esortazione
  • Piedmontese: esortassion
  • Portuguese: exortação
  • Romanian: exortațiune, exortație
  • Spanish: exhortación

References

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