commiseratio

== Latin == === Etymology === From commiseror (“to commiserate”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔm.mɪ.sɛˈraː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kom.mi.s̬eˈrat.t͡si.o] === Noun === commiserātiō f (genitive commiserātiōnis); third declension (rhetoric) an appeal to compassion ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “commiseratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers