adrogation means A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin adrogatio, arrogatio, from adrogare. See arrogate.
noun
- A kind of adoption in Ancient Rome.“There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilitia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption, or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges connected with his gentile rites, when he lost his gens, that is, when he was adrogated, adopted, or even ema”