Latin

Noun

adūlātiō f ‎(genitive adūlātiōnis); third declension

1. fawning
2. flattery
3. adulation

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: adulation
• French: adulation
• Portuguese: adulação
• Spanish: adulación

References

• adulatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adulatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ADULATIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adulatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• adulatio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulatio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin