obligatio

== Latin == === Etymology === From obligō (“bind in obligation; restrain”) +‎ -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔb.lɪˈɡaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ob.liˈɡat.t͡si.o] === Noun === obligātiō f (genitive obligātiōnis); third declension binding; engaging, pledging, obligation, bond obligatory relationship document that confirms a bond or obligation (figuratively) entangling, ensnaring ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "obligatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “obligatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “obligatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers