occupatio

Latin

Etymology

From occupō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ok.kuˈpaː.ti.oː/, [ɔkːʊˈpäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ok.kuˈpat.t͡si.o/, [okːuˈpät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

occupātiō f (genitive occupātiōnis); third declension

1. seizing, occupying (taking possession)
2. occupation, employment
3. (figurative) trouble, unrest
4. duty, obligation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	occupātiō	occupātiōnēs
Genitive	occupātiōnis	occupātiōnum
Dative	occupātiōnī	occupātiōnibus
Accusative	occupātiōnem	occupātiōnēs
Ablative	occupātiōne	occupātiōnibus
Vocative	occupātiō	occupātiōnēs

Derived terms

• anteoccupātiō

Descendants

• Catalan: ocupació
• English: occupation
• French: occupation
• Italian: occupazione
• Norman: otchupâtiaon (Guernsey), otchupâtion (Jersey)
• Portuguese: ocupação
• Romanian: ocupație
• Russian: оккупа́ция (okkupácija)
• Sicilian: accupazziuni
• Spanish: ocupación
• Ukrainian: окупа́ція (okupácija)

References

• “occupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occupatio 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)
• occupatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the study of belles-lettres; literary pursuits: litterarum studium or tractatio (not occupatio)
    
• “occupatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “occupatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin