violatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wéyHs

Proto-Italic *wīs

Latin vīs

Latin violō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin violātiō

From violō (“to treat with violence, to profane”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wi.ɔˈɫaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.oˈlat.t͡si.o]

Noun

violātiō f (genitive violātiōnis); third declension

1. violation, profanation
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 31.12.4:

     curam expiandae violationis eius templi prodigia etiam sub idem tempus pluribus locis nuntiata accenderunt.

     • Translation by Evan T. Sage

       The concern to atone for the violation of this temple was increased by the prodigies which were reported in numerous parts of the country at the same time.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	violātiō	violātiōnēs
genitive	violātiōnis	violātiōnum
dative	violātiōnī	violātiōnibus
accusative	violātiōnem	violātiōnēs
ablative	violātiōne	violātiōnibus
vocative	violātiō	violātiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: violación
• Catalan: violació
• French: violation
• Galician: violación
• Italian: violazione
• Ladin: viulazion
• Portuguese: violação
• Romanian: violație
• Spanish: violación

References

• “violatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “violatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers