oblectatio

Latin

Etymology

oblectō +‎ -tiō

Noun

oblectātiō f (genitive oblectātiōnis); third declension

1. delight, amusement, diversion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	oblectātiō	oblectātiōnēs
genitive	oblectātiōnis	oblectātiōnum
dative	oblectātiōnī	oblectātiōnibus
accusative	oblectātiōnem	oblectātiōnēs
ablative	oblectātiōne	oblectātiōnibus
vocative	oblectātiō	oblectātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: oblectation

References

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