notatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti

Proto-Italic *gnōskō

Latin gnōscō

Latin nōscō?

Latin nota

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin notō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin notātiō

From notō (“to mark, write, note”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɔˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [noˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

notātiō f (genitive notātiōnis); third declension

1. marking, noting
2. choice, designation
3. observation
4. describing, depicting, characterizing
5. The designation of the meaning and derivation of a word — etymology.
6. The use of letters to denote entire words.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	notātiō	notātiōnēs
genitive	notātiōnis	notātiōnum
dative	notātiōnī	notātiōnibus
accusative	notātiōnem	notātiōnēs
ablative	notātiōne	notātiōnibus
vocative	notātiō	notātiōnēs

Related terms

• nota
• notātus
• notula

Descendants

• Catalan: notació
• English: notation
• French: notation
• Galician: notación
• Italian: notazione
• Occitan: notacion
• Portuguese: notação
• Romanian: notație
• Russian: нотация (notacija)
• Spanish: notación

References

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