creatio

Latin

Etymology

From creō (“create, make”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kreˈaː.ti.oː/, [kreˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreˈat.t͡si.o/, [kreˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

creātiō f (genitive creātiōnis); third declension

1. a creating, producing; creation
2. an electing or appointment to an office, choice

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	creātiō	creātiōnēs
genitive	creātiōnis	creātiōnum
dative	creātiōnī	creātiōnibus
accusative	creātiōnem	creātiōnēs
ablative	creātiōne	creātiōnibus
vocative	creātiō	creātiōnēs

Derived terms

• creātiō ex nihilō

Related terms

• creābilis
• creāmen
• creātor
• creātrīx
• creātūra
• creō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: Crãciun
• Asturian: creación
• Catalan: creació
• Dutch: creatie
• English: creation
• French: création
• Galician: creación
• German: Kreation
• Haitian Creole: kreyasyon
• Italian: creazione
• Norman: créâtion
• Norwegian Bokmål: kreasjon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kreasjon
• Occitan: creacion
• Polish: kreacja
• Portuguese: criação
• Romanian: Crăciun, creație
• Sardinian: criatone
• Serbo-Croatian: kreacija, креација
• Sicilian: criazziuni
• Slovak: kreácia
• Spanish: creación, criazón
• Welsh: creu

References

• “creatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• creatio 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)
• creatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.