obsecratio

Latin

Etymology

From obsecrō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

obsecrātiō f (genitive obsecrātiōnis); third declension

1. supplication, entreaty
2. asseveration, protestation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	obsecrātiō	obsecrātiōnēs
genitive	obsecrātiōnis	obsecrātiōnum
dative	obsecrātiōnī	obsecrātiōnibus
accusative	obsecrātiōnem	obsecrātiōnēs
ablative	obsecrātiōne	obsecrātiōnibus
vocative	obsecrātiō	obsecrātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: obsécration

References

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