LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

imāginātiō

imāginātiō f (genitive imāginātiōnis)

Meaning

  1. post Classicalmental image, fancy, imagination

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeimāginātiōimāginātiōnēs
genitiveimāginātiōnisimāginātiōnum
dativeimāginātiōnīimāginātiōnibus
accusativeimāginātiōnemimāginātiōnēs
ablativeimāginātiōneimāginātiōnibus
vocativeimāginātiōimāginātiōnēs

ĭmāgĭnātĭo, ōnis, f. imaginor,
I. a mental image, fancy, imagination (postAug.): libidinum imaginationes in somno, Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 68: provincias secretis imaginationibus agitans, Tac. A. 15, 36; Aug. Conf. 7, 5.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin imāginātiō From imāginor + -tiō.

Descendants
  • Catalanimaginació
  • Englishimagination
  • GermanImagination
  • Frenchimagination
  • Italianimmaginazione
  • Occitanimaginacion
  • Portugueseimaginação
  • Romanianimaginație
  • Spanishimaginación
  • Asturianimaxinación

In English words that came into English from imāginātiō

  • imaginationimāginātiō

Quick answers

What does imāginātiō mean in Latin?
imāginātiō, a noun, means “mental image, fancy, imagination”.
What is the genitive of imāginātiō?
The genitive singular is imāginātiōnis. imāginātiō is feminine, third declension.