rusticatio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūsticātiō (“rustication (living in the country)”)

Noun

rusticatio (plural rusticationes)

1. Full-immersion Latin-language “summer camp” in the countryside or a secluded setting. Participants eat, work, play, and speak nothing but Latin for the entire period.
   • 2015 October 5, “The Latin Speakers of West Virginia”, in Eidolon: Classics Without Fragility (Medium)‎, archived from the original on 21 June 2017:

     Llewellyn sees Rusticatio as a place where Latinists of all sorts, but Latin teachers in particular, grow more comfortable using Latin as a language

   • 2019 July 19, “Rusticatio Australiana Altera!”, in The Patrologist‎, archived from the original on 6 March 2021:

     What’s a rusticatio? Well, it’s a live-in, immersion week of Latin in a rural setting, in which you only speak in Latin

Synonyms

• conventiculum

Latin

Etymology

From rūsticor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

rūsticātiō f (genitive rūsticātiōnis); third declension

1. rustication (living in the country)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rūsticātiō	rūsticātiōnēs
genitive	rūsticātiōnis	rūsticātiōnum
dative	rūsticātiōnī	rūsticātiōnibus
accusative	rūsticātiōnem	rūsticātiōnēs
ablative	rūsticātiōne	rūsticātiōnibus
vocative	rūsticātiō	rūsticātiōnēs

References

• “rusticatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rusticatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rusticatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rusticatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • country life (of casual, temporary visitors): rusticatio, vita rusticana