tribulatio

Latin

Etymology

From trībulō +‎ -tiō. Translates Ancient Greek θλῖψις (thlîpsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /triː.buˈlaː.ti.oː/, [t̪riːbʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tri.buˈlat.t͡si.o/, [t̪ribuˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

trībulātiō f (genitive trībulātiōnis); third declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

1. distress, trouble, tribulation
   • 1361 November 19, “Lübeck an Reval: theilt die Aug. 1 zu Greifswald von den Seestädten gefassten Beschlüsse mit”, in Hanserecesse, volumes I Die Recesse und andere Akten der Hansetage von 1256–1430, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, published 1870, page 193:

     Petimus eciam non haberi pro ingrato, quod premissa non prius fecimus vobis intimari; causa suffuit, quod hujusmodi tribulacio mercatoribus evenit ita repentino, quod vestri presenciam ad hoc non poterant habere commodose.

     We pray also that it will not be deemed ungrateful that the aforesent matters have not been intimated by us before; the cause underlay that a trouble of this kind went out so sudden to the merchants that they could not have your presence without inconvenience.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trībulātiō	trībulātiōnēs
genitive	trībulātiōnis	trībulātiōnum
dative	trībulātiōnī	trībulātiōnibus
accusative	trībulātiōnem	trībulātiōnēs
ablative	trībulātiōne	trībulātiōnibus
vocative	trībulātiō	trībulātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: tribulació
• English: tribulation
• French: tribulation
• Galician: tribulación
• Irish: trioblóid, treabhlaid
• Italian: tribolazione
• Portuguese: tribulação
• Spanish: tribulación

References

• “tribulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tribulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.