LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

castīgātiō

castīgātiō f (genitive castīgātiōnis)
Classical[kas.tiːˈɡaː.ti.oː]Ecclesiastical[kas.tiˈɡat.t͡si.o]

Meaning

  1. chastisement, punishment, correction
    Rēctissime ergō facere tē iūdicō quod timērī ā servīs tuīs nōn vīs, quod verbōrum castīgātiōne uterīs; verberibus mūta admonentur.Therefore, I judge that you are acting most correctly because you do not wish to be feared by your slaves, and because you make use of words in punishment; mute [animals] are admonished with whips.c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.19
  2. reproof
  3. pruning (of plants)

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativecastīgātiōcastīgātiōnēs
genitivecastīgātiōniscastīgātiōnum
dativecastīgātiōnīcastīgātiōnibus
accusativecastīgātiōnemcastīgātiōnēs
ablativecastīgātiōnecastīgātiōnibus
vocativecastīgātiōcastīgātiōnēs

Lewis & Short A Latin Dictionary, 1879

castīgātĭo, ōnis, f. castigo,
I. a correcting, chastising, punishment, correction, etc. (in good prose).
A. Lit.
1. In gen., of blows. etc. (rare, and always with gen.: fustium, Dig. 1, 15, 3: flagellorum, ib. 48, 19, 7.—
2. Of verbal chastisement, reproof, etc. (class. and freq.): omnis et animad. versio et castigatio contumeliā vacare debet, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88; cf. id. ib. 1, 38, 137: admonitio frequens, interdum et castigatio, vindicta rarissima, Vell. 2, 114, 3; Quint. 1, 3, 14; 3, 8, 54: tacita, Liv. 27, 10, 10; Sen. Ira, 1, 6, 1; 1, 15, 1; 2, 27, 3; id. Ep. 94, 36: censoria, Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 32; Vulg. Psa. 72, 14.—In plur., Cic. Tusc. 4, 20, 45; Liv. 31, 46, 11 al.—With gen.: verborum, Liv. 27, 15, 2.—
B. Transf., in gardening, a trimming, lopping of plants, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 173.—Of the exposure of their roots to the cold, Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 262.—
II. Trop.: loquendi, the tempering, moderating of the speech, Macr. S. 2, 4, 12.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin castīgātiō From castīgō + -tiō.

Quick answers

What does castīgātiō mean in Latin?
castīgātiō, a noun, means “chastisement, punishment, correction; reproof; pruning (of plants)”.
What is the genitive of castīgātiō?
The genitive singular is castīgātiōnis. castīgātiō is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce castīgātiō?
In classical Latin, [kas.tiːˈɡaː.ti.oː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [kas.tiˈɡat.t͡si.o].