aemulatio

From aemulor (“I rival, emulate”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯.muˈlaː.ti.oː/, [ae̯.mʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɛ.muˈla.t͡si.o/, [ɛ.muˈlaː.t͡si̯o]

aemulātiō f (genitive aemulātiōnis); third declension

1. The endeavor to be equal to or match another in something; emulation, ambition; rivalry, competition.
2. Jealousy, envy, malevolence.

Third declension.

• (emulation): aemulātus, certāmen, zēlus
• (rivalry): aemulātus, certāmen, competītiō
• (jealousy): invidentia, invidia, simultās, zēlotypia, zēlus

• aemulatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aemulatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aemulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit