# oratio
## Latin
### Etymology

From ōrō (“to speak as an orator; plead; pray”) +‎ -tiō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /oːˈraː.ti.oː/, [oːˈräːt̪ioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /oˈrat.t͡si.o/, [oˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

### Noun

ōrātiō f (genitive ōrātiōnis); third declension
* speech, discourse, language
* the power of speech
* manner or style of speaking
* oration, public speech
    Synonym: cōntiō
* eloquence
* sentence or clause expressing a complete sense
* imperial message
* prayer or address to a deity

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* ōrātiuncula
* pars ōrātiōnis (grammar)

#### Related terms

* ōrāculum
* ōrātor
* ōrātōriē
* ōrātōrius
* ōrātum
* ōrō

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: urãciuni
* Galician: oración
* Old French: oroison, oraison, oreison, oreson
** Middle French: oroison, oraison
*** French: oraison
** → Middle English: orisoun
*** English: orison
* Old Galician-Portuguese: oraçon
** Portuguese: oração
* Piedmontese: orassion
* Romagnol: urazion
* Romansch: uraziun, oraziun, uraztgùn, urazchun
* Romanian: urăciune
* Sardinian: orascione, orassione, oratzioni
* Venetan: oražion
* → Proto-Brythonic: *arọd (see there for further descendants)
* → Old Irish: ortha, oráit (see there for further descendants)
* → Catalan: oració
* → English: oration
* → Italian: orazione
* → Polish: oracja
** → Romanian: orație
* → Spanish: oración

### References

* “oratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “oratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* oratio 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)
* oratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. his words find an easy hearing, are listened to with pleasure: oratio in aures influit a funeral oration: oratio funebris to compose a speech: orationem conficere to prepare, get up a speech: orationem commentari (Fam. 16. 26) a prepared speech: oratio meditata (Plin. 26. 3. 7) an extempore speech: oratio subita a continuous discourse: oratio perpetua a carefully prepared speech: oratio accurata et polita an elaborate speech: oratio composita to make a speech: orationem habere (Tusc. 5. 33. 94) to obtain a hearing: audientiam sibi (orationi) facere style: genus dicendi (scribendi); oratio a running style: fusum orationis genus a bombastic style: inflatum orationis genus a bombastic style: oratio altius exaggerata the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis an easy, fluent style: expedita et facile currens oratio an easy, fluent style: oratio aequabiliter fluens flow of oratory: flumen orationis (De Or. 2. 15. 62) the plain style: siccitas, sanitas orationis the plain style: verborum tenuitias, oratio subtilis the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis well-chosen language, grace of style: ornatus orationis, verborum tasteful description: elegantia orationis pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas) incorrect language: oratio inquinata (De Opt. Gen. Or. 3. 7) Cato's speeches sound archaic: orationes Catonis antiquitatem redolent (Brut. 21. 82) there is a flavour of Atticism about his discourse: ex illius orationibus ipsae Athenae redolent prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio his style has a well-balanced cadence: oratio numerose cadit to make a speech rhythmical: numeris orationem astringere, vincire a full and copious style of speech: ubertas (not divitiae) et copia orationis to express clearly, make a lifelike representation of a thing: exprimere aliquid verbis or oratione (vid. sect. VI. 3, note adumbrare...) the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum) the circumstances are described in language worthy of them: rebus ipsis par est oratio to interpolate, insert something: includere in orationem aliquid to interpolate, insert something: inserere orationi aliquid a rather recondite speech: oratio longius repetita (De Or. 3. 24. 91) to express oneself in popular language: ad vulgarem sensum or ad communem opinionem orationem accommodare (Off. 2. 10. 35) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria) but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur to intersperse one's speech with humorous remarks: aspergere sales orationi (Or. 26. 87) a mistake, solecism: vitium orationis, sermonis or simply vitium to be unable to express one's ideas: orationis expertem esse the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus the book, speech can easily be obtained: liber, oratio in manibus est the text of the author (not textus): verba, oratio, exemplum scriptoris I avoid mentioning...; I prefer not to touch upon..: supersedeo oratione (not dicere)
* oratio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016