adulatio

Latin

Etymology

From adūlor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

adūlātiō f (genitive adūlātiōnis); third declension

1. fawning
2. flattery
3. adulation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adūlātiō	adūlātiōnēs
genitive	adūlātiōnis	adūlātiōnum
dative	adūlātiōnī	adūlātiōnibus
accusative	adūlātiōnem	adūlātiōnēs
ablative	adūlātiōne	adūlātiōnibus
vocative	adūlātiō	adūlātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: adulació
• → English: adulation
• French: adulation
• Galician: adulación
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: adulaziôn
• Italian: adulazione
• → Polish: (obsolete) adulacja (learned)
• Portuguese: adulação
• Spanish: adulación

References

• “adulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• adulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “adulatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “adulatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin