Latin

Noun

occupātio f ‎(genitive occupātiōnis); third declension

1. seizing, occupying (taking possession)
2. occupation, employment
3. (figurative) trouble, unrest
4. duty, obligation

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• anteoccupatio

Descendants

References

• occupatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occupatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• OCCUPATIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “occupatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the study of belles-lettres; literary pursuits: litterarum studium or tractatio (not occupatio)
    
• occupatio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• occupatio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin