concatenatio

Etymology

From concatēnō (“to connect, link together”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.ka.teːˈnaː.ti.oː/, [kɔŋkät̪eːˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ka.teˈnat.t͡si.o/, [koŋkät̪eˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

concatēnātiō f (genitive concatēnātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin, literally) connecting, joining
   • 507 CE – 537 CE, Cassiodorus, Variarum libri XII 12.19.2
2. (figurative) concatenation, sequence
   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, Apologeticus 19
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 3.30
3. (figurative) fettering, binding
   • c. 420 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Tardae passiones 3.2.15

References

• “concatenatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press