informatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Latin fōrmō

Latin īnfōrmō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin īnfōrmātiō

From īnfōrmō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩː.foːrˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱ.forˈmat.t͡si.o]

Noun

īnfōrmātiō f (genitive īnfōrmātiōnis); third declension

1. sketch, idea, conception
2. information

   Synonym: adumbrātiō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnfōrmātiō	īnfōrmātiōnēs
genitive	īnfōrmātiōnis	īnfōrmātiōnum
dative	īnfōrmātiōnī	īnfōrmātiōnibus
accusative	īnfōrmātiōnem	īnfōrmātiōnēs
ablative	īnfōrmātiōne	īnfōrmātiōnibus
vocative	īnfōrmātiō	īnfōrmātiōnēs

Related terms

• īnfōrmō

Descendants

• → Catalan: informació
• → English: information
• → French: information
  • Haitian Creole: enfòmasyon
• → Galician: información
• → German: Information
• → Italian: informazione
• → Portuguese: informação
• → Romanian: informație
• → Russian: информация (informacija)
• → Sicilian: nfurmazziuni
• → Spanish: información
• → Swedish: information

References

• “informatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “informatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “informatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• informatio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016