LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

exhortātiō

exhortātiō f (genitive exhortātiōnis)

Meaning

  1. exhortation, encouragement
    Diūtius tē morārī nōlō; nōn est enim tibi exhortātiōne opus.I don’t want to keep you any longer; truly, you have no need for encouragement.c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 47.21

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeexhortātiōexhortātiōnēs
genitiveexhortātiōnisexhortātiōnum
dativeexhortātiōnīexhortātiōnibus
accusativeexhortātiōnemexhortātiōnēs
ablativeexhortātiōneexhortātiōnibus
vocativeexhortātiōexhortātiōnēs

exhortātĭo, ōnis, f. exhortor,
I. an exhorting, exhortation, encouraging (mostly post-Aug.; not in Cic.): quae tua exhortatione excepi, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 7, 1; Quint. 12, 2, 6: strepere cuncta clamoribus et tumultu et exhortatione mutua, Tac. H. 1, 36; Vulg. Act. 13, 15 al. et saep.—In plur., Quint. 10, 1, 47; Col. 11, 1, 17; Just. 38, 3 fin.—With obj. gen.: studiorum, Quint. 12, 11, 25.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exhortātiō From exhortor + -tiō.

Descendants
  • Englishexhortation
  • Frenchexhortation
  • Italianesortazione
  • Portugueseexortação
  • Romanianexortațiune
  • Romanianexortație
  • Spanishexhortación
  • Piedmonteseesortassion

In English words that came into English from exhortātiō

  • exhortationexhortātiōnem

Quick answers

What does exhortātiō mean in Latin?
exhortātiō, a noun, means “exhortation, encouragement”.
What is the genitive of exhortātiō?
The genitive singular is exhortātiōnis. exhortātiō is feminine, third declension.