delegatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From dēlēgō (“to assign, delegate”) + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.ɫeːˈɡaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [de.leˈɡat.t͡si.o] === Noun === dēlēgātiō f (genitive dēlēgātiōnis); third declension an assignment (of debt), substitution delegation of one person by another ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “delegatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers