obligatio

From obligō (“bind in obligation; restrain”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ob.liˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [ɔblʲɪˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.liˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [obliˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

obligātiō f (genitive obligātiōnis); third declension

1. binding; engaging, pledging, obligation, bond
2. obligatory relationship
3. document that confirms a bond or obligation
4. (figuratively) entangling, ensnaring

Third-declension noun.

• “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obligatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obligatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• obligatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “obligatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers