exhortatio
Latin
Etymology
Noun
exhortātiō f (genitive exhortātiōnis); third declension
- 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.
- Diūtius tē morārī nōlō; nōn est enim tibi exhortātiōne opus.
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.