rogatio

Latin

Etymology

From rogō (“ask; request”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rogātiō f (genitive rogātiōnis); third declension

1. (law) An inquiry or proposal to the people for passing a law or decree; a proposed law, decree or bill.

   Synonym: rogitātiō

2. A question, interrogation, questioning.

   Synonym: rogāmentum

3. An asking, demanding; prayer, entreaty, request; invitation.

   Synonyms: petītiō, postulātum, supplicātiō, supplicium, precātiō, prex

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rogātiō	rogātiōnēs
genitive	rogātiōnis	rogātiōnum
dative	rogātiōnī	rogātiōnibus
accusative	rogātiōnem	rogātiōnēs
ablative	rogātiōne	rogātiōnibus
vocative	rogātiō	rogātiōnēs

Derived terms

• rogātiuncula
• subrogātiō

Related terms

• rogāmentum
• rogātor
• rogātus
• rogitātiō
• rogitō
• rogō

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Megleno-Romanian: rugăciuni
    • Romanian: rugăciune
  • Old French: rovaison
    • French: rouaisouns (“name of a festival”) (Normandy)
  • Old Occitan: roazó
  • Portuguese: rogação
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: rogació
  • → English: rogation
  • → French: rogation
  • → Italian: rogazione
  • → Spanish: rogación
  • → Venetan: rogažion

References

• “rogatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rogatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rogatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rogatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring a bill before the notice of the people: legem, rogationem promulgare (Liv. 33. 46)
    
• “rogatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rogatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin