coniuratio

Latin

Alternative forms

conjūrātiō

Etymology

From coniūrō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.i̯uːˈraː.ti.oː/, [kɔni̯uːˈräːt̪ioː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.juˈrat.t͡si.o/, [konjuˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

coniūrātiō f (genitive coniūrātiōnis); third declension

a swearing together
a conspiracy, plot; confederacy, band of conspirators
Synonyms: cōnsēnsus, cōnspīrātiō, cōnsēnsiō
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:
  Is, M. Messālā et M. Pupio Pīsōne cōnsulibus, rēgnī cupiditāte inductus coniūrātiōnem nōbilitātis fēcit, et cīvitātī persuāsit ut dē fīnibus suīs cum omnibus cōpiīs exīrent: perfacile esse, cum virtūte omnibus praestārent, tōtīus Galliae imperiō potīrī.
  He, with Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso being consuls, incited by a lust of power, formed a conspiracy amongst the nobility, and persuaded the people to come forth from their lands with all of their possessions, [saying] that it would be very easy, as they were all distinguished in valor, to acquire the supremacy over all of Gaul.
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos:
  Hic autem vestram volumus excitatam pro religione constantiam adversus foedissimam in clericalem coelibatum coniurationem […]
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Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coniūrātiō	coniūrātiōnēs
Genitive	coniūrātiōnis	coniūrātiōnum
Dative	coniūrātiōnī	coniūrātiōnibus
Accusative	coniūrātiōnem	coniūrātiōnēs
Ablative	coniūrātiōne	coniūrātiōnibus
Vocative	coniūrātiō	coniūrātiōnēs

Related terms

Descendants

Old French: conjuraison, conjureison, conjurison
- Middle French: conjuraison, conjurison, conjuroison
- → Middle English: conjurisoun, conjorison, conjureson, conjuresoun, conjurison, conjurisun, conjurson, conjursion, conjurysoun
→ Old French: conjuracion, conjuration
- Middle French: conjuracion, conjuration
  - French: conjuration
- → Middle English: conjuracioun, conjuraceoun, conjuracion, conjuracyoun
  - English: conjuration
→ Italian: congiurazione
→ Portuguese: conjuração
→ Romanian: conjurație
→ Spanish: conjuración

References

“coniuratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
coniuratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to form a conspiracy: coniurationem facere (Catil. 2. 4. 6)

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