allocutio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adlocūtiō

Etymology

From alloquor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [al.lɔˈkuː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.loˈkut.t͡si.o]

Noun

allocūtiō f (genitive allocūtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of speaking to or accosting; address.
2. The act of consoling or comforting; consolation, comfort; exhortation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	allocūtiō	allocūtiōnēs
genitive	allocūtiōnis	allocūtiōnum
dative	allocūtiōnī	allocūtiōnibus
accusative	allocūtiōnem	allocūtiōnēs
ablative	allocūtiōne	allocūtiōnibus
vocative	allocūtiō	allocūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: al·locució
• English: allocution
• French: allocution
• Italian: allocuzione
• Portuguese: alocução
• Romanian: alocuție, alocuțiune
• Spanish: alocución

References

• “allocutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “allocutio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.