satisfactio

Latin

Etymology

From satisfaciō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

satisfactiō f (genitive satisfactiōnis); third declension

1. The giving of security or bail
2. satisfaction (for an offence); reparation, amends
3. excuse, apology, plea

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	satisfactiō	satisfactiōnēs
genitive	satisfactiōnis	satisfactiōnum
dative	satisfactiōnī	satisfactiōnibus
accusative	satisfactiōnem	satisfactiōnēs
ablative	satisfactiōne	satisfactiōnibus
vocative	satisfactiō	satisfactiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: satisfacció
• → English: satisfaction
• → Estonian: satisfaktsioon
• → French: satisfaction
• → Galician: satisfacción
• → German: Satisfaktion
• → Interlingua: satisfaction
• → Italian: soddisfazione (semi-learned)
  • → Friulian: sodisfazion
  • → Piedmontese: sodisfassion
  • → Sicilian: sudisfazzioni
• → Polish: satysfakcja
• → Portuguese: satisfação
• → Romanian: satisfacție, satisfacțiune
• → Russian: сатисфакция (satisfakcija)
• → Spanish: satisfacción
  • Papiamentu: satisfakshon

References

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