attestatio

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Latin

Etymology

attestor (“bear witness to, attest, prove, confirm, corroborate”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /at.tesˈtaː.ti.oː/, [ät̪ːɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /at.tesˈtat.t͡si.o/, [ät̪ːesˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

attestātiō f (genitive attestātiōnis); third declension

attestation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	attestātiō	attestātiōnēs
genitive	attestātiōnis	attestātiōnum
dative	attestātiōnī	attestātiōnibus
accusative	attestātiōnem	attestātiōnēs
ablative	attestātiōne	attestātiōnibus
vocative	attestātiō	attestātiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: atestació
Middle French: attestation
- French: attestation
- → English: attestation
Galician: atestación
Italian: attestazione
Portuguese: atestação
Romanian: atestație
Spanish: atestación

References

“attestatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
attestatio 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)
attestatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.