Latin

Noun

festīnātiō f ‎(genitive festīnātiōnis); third declension

1. An instance of hastening or hurrying; haste, hurry, dispatch, speed.

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: festination
• Italian: festinazione
• Portuguese: festinação

References

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