oblatio

Latin

Etymology

From offerō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

oblātiō f (genitive oblātiōnis); third declension

1. offering, gift, oblation

   Synonyms: praemium, datum, dōnum, datiō, pretium

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oblātiō	oblātiōnēs
Genitive	oblātiōnis	oblātiōnum
Dative	oblātiōnī	oblātiōnibus
Accusative	oblātiōnem	oblātiōnēs
Ablative	oblātiōne	oblātiōnibus
Vocative	oblātiō	oblātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Italian: oblazione
• → Old French: oblacion
  • → Middle English: oblacioun
    • English: oblation
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: oblaçon
  • Portuguese: oblação
• → Spanish: oblación
• → Proto-West Germanic: *oblātijā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “oblatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oblatio 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)
• oblatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.