noun · femininethird declension
significātiō
significātiō f (genitive significātiōnis)
Meaning
- signal, sign, mark, token
- applause
- meaning, import
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | significātiō | significātiōnēs |
| genitive | significātiōnis | significātiōnum |
| dative | significātiōnī | significātiōnibus |
| accusative | significātiōnem | significātiōnēs |
| ablative | significātiōne | significātiōnibus |
| vocative | significātiō | significātiōnēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- significatione appellare aliquem
- to allude to a person or thing (not alludere).
signĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. id..
I. A pointing out, indicating, denoting, signifying; an expression, indication, mark, sign, token, = indicium, signum, ἐπισημασία, etc. (freq. and class.).
(a). Absol.:
gestus sententiam non demonstratione sed significatione declarans, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: aliquem nutu significationeque appellare, id. Fam. 1, 9, 20: ignibus significatione factā. Caes. B. G. 2, 33: significatione per castella fumo factā, id. B. C. 3, 65; id. B. G. 7, 81.—With subj. gen.: ex significatione Gallorum, Caes. B. G. 7, 12 fin.: litterarum, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7.—(b). With obj. gen. (so most freq.):
voluntatis, Cic. Clu. 11, 31: victoriae, Caes. B. G. 5, 53: adventus, id. ib. 6, 29 fin.: virtutis, Cic. Lael. 14, 48; cf. id. Off. 1, 15, 46: significatio calamitatum, id. Div. 2, 25, 54: artificii, id. de Or. 2, 30, 153: probitatis, id. Lael. 9, 32; id. Fam. 5, 7, 2 et saep.—Plur.: valetudinis significationes, Cic. Div. 2, 69, 142: rerum futurarum, id. N. D. 2, 66, 166. —(g). With object-clause (very rare):
ex quibus magna significatio fit, non adesse constantiam, Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.—Plur.: multas nec dubias significationes saepe jecit: ne reliquis quidem se parsurum senatoribus, Suet. Ner. 37.—II. In partic.
A. Pregn., like the Gr. ἐπισημασία, a sign or token of assent, an expression of approbation, applause:
populi judiciis atque omni significatione florere, Cic. Sest. 49, 105; cf. id. ib. 57, 122; 59, 127: ut ex ipsā significatione potuit cognosci, Caes. B. C. 1, 86.— Plur., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42: significationibus acclamationibus multitudinis, Liv. 31, 15, 2 (corresp. to assentatio).—B. Also, like ἐπισημασία, a sign, token, foretoken, prognostic of the weather (Plinian):
est et aquarum significatio, etc.... caeli quidem murmur non dubiam habet significationem. Praesagiunt et animalia, Plin. 18, 35, 85, § 359 sq.—C. In rhet. lang., significance, emphasis:
significatio est, quae plus in suspicione relinquit, quam positum est in oratione, Auct. Her. 4, 53, 67; Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203; id. Or. 40, 139; Quint. 9, 2, 3 (as a transl. of the Gr. ἔμφασις).—D. In gram., meaning, sense, import, signification of a word or phrase:
verbi, Varr. L. L. 9, § 40 Müll.: scripti, Cic. Part. Or. 31, 108; cf. id. ib. 38, 132: est igitur tropus sermo a naturali et principali significatione translatus ad aliam, Quint. 9, 1, 4: ejusdem verbi contraria significatio, id. 9, 3, 68: voces eaedem diversā in significatione ponuntur, id. 9, 3, 69: verborum, id. 10, 1, 10: latens, id. 10, 1, 90: propriae, Gell. 12, 13, 2.—So the titles of the lexical works of Aelius Gallus, Verrius Flaccus, Festus, etc.: De verborum Significatione or Significationibus.—E. Meaning, intent:
duas significationes habet propositio vestra, includes two assertions, Sen. Ep. 87, 28.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sīgnificātiō ōnis, f
significo, a pointing out, indicating, expression, indication, mark, sign, token : gestus sententiam significatione declarans: ignibus significatione factā, Cs.: ex significatione Gallorum, Cs.: litterarum: huius voluntatis: adventūs, Cs.: probitatis: valetudinis significationes: non dubiae deorum, from the gods : ex quibus magna significatio fit, non adesse constantiam.— A sign of assent, expression of approbation, applause : populi iudiciis atque omni significatione florere: ut usque Romam significationes vocesque referantur: significationibus acclamationibus multitudinis, L.— Expression, emphasis : significatio saepe erit maior quam oratio.— Meaning, sense, import, signification : scripti.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin significātiō From significō + -tiō.
Descendants
- Catalansignificació
- Frenchsignification
- Italiansignificazione
- Portuguesesignificação
- Romaniansemnificație
- Spanishsignificación
- Galiciansignificación
In English words that came into English from significātiō
- significationsignificātiō