Latin

Noun

administrātiō f ‎(genitive administrātiōnis); third declension

1. administration, management (of a city, body)
2. the handling, operation (of an affair)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1

     Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.

     When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• administer
• administra
• administrātor
• administrō

Descendants

• French: administration
• English: administration
• Italian: amministrazione
• Norwegian: administrasjon
• Portuguese: administração
• Romanian: administrație
• Russian: администра́ция f ‎(administrácija)
• Spanish: administración

References

• administratio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administratio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ADMINISTRATIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “administratio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.