cooptatio

Latin

Etymology

cooptō +‎ -tiō

Noun

cooptātiō f (genitive cooptātiōnis); third declension

1. cooption, adoption (into office)
2. election, choice

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cooptātiō	cooptātiōnēs
genitive	cooptātiōnis	cooptātiōnum
dative	cooptātiōnī	cooptātiōnibus
accusative	cooptātiōnem	cooptātiōnēs
ablative	cooptātiōne	cooptātiōnibus
vocative	cooptātiō	cooptātiōnēs

Descendants

• French: cooptation
• Italian: cooptazione
• Romanian: cooptațiune
• Spanish: cooptación

References

• “cooptatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cooptatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cooptatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cooptatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers