occupatio

From occupō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.kʊˈpaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ok.kuˈpat.t͡si.o]

occupātiō f (genitive occupātiōnis); third declension

1. seizing, occupying (taking possession)
2. occupation, employment
3. (figurative) trouble, unrest
4. duty, obligation
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Friends:

     propter molestissimās occupātiōnēs meās, quibus sī mē relaxārō (nam ut plānē exsolvam nōn postulō), tē ipsum, quī multōs annōs nihil aliud commentāris, docēbō profectō quid sit hūmāniter vīvere.

     Due to my most troublesome duties which if I slacken (for to be loose of them entirely is more than I can ask), then, no question about it, I shall teach you the art of civilized living, to which you have been giving your undivided attention for years!

Third-declension noun.

• anteoccupātiō

• “occupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "occupatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “occupatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the study of belles-lettres; literary pursuits: litterarum studium or tractatio (not occupatio)
    
• “occupatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “occupatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin