statio

Latin

Etymology

From stō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsta.ti.oː/, [ˈs̠t̪ät̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstat.t͡si.o/, [ˈst̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

statiō f (genitive statiōnis); third declension

1. outpost, picket
2. station
3. watch
4. a standing, standing firm, position

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	statiō	statiōnēs
Genitive	statiōnis	statiōnum
Dative	statiōnī	statiōnibus
Accusative	statiōnem	statiōnēs
Ablative	statiōne	statiōnibus
Vocative	statiō	statiōnēs

Descendants

Descendants of statio

• Dalmatian:
  • stasaun (“store, shop”)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: staghjone
  • Italian: stazzo, stazzone, stazione, stagione
    • → Cimbrian: stadjónge
    • → Maltese: stazzjon
  • Neapolitan: staggione
  • Sicilian: staggiuni
    • → Maltese: staġun
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: stagjon
  • Ligurian: stagion
  • Romansch: stagiun, stizun
  • Venetan: stagion
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: Estaon (toponym)
  • Old Occitan: estazó
• Sardinian:
  • istajone (“season”)
• Borrowings:
  • → Asturian: estación
  • → Catalan: estació
  • → Danish: station
  • → Esperanto: stacio
  • → Galician: estación
  • → German: Station
  • → Italian: stazione, stazio ⇒ staziografo
    • → Sardinian: istatzione
    • → Sicilian: stazzioni
  • → Ligurian: staçion
  • → Neapolitan: stazzione
  • → Norwegian:

    Bokmål: stasjon

    Nynorsk: stasjon

  • → Occitan: estacion
  • → Old French: estation (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Polish: stacyja (learned) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Portuguese: estação
  • → Romanian: stație
  • → Spanish: estación
  • → Swedish: station
  • → Venetan: stasion, stassion, stassiòn

References

• “statio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “statio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• statio 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)
• statio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the cohort on guard-duty: cohors, quae in statione est
    
  • to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis