I.a marking, showing, assignment, allotment; most freq. of the allotment of land to colonists (cf. assigno, I. A.); “with and without agrorum: haec agrorum adsignatio,” Cic. Phil. 6, 5, 14; 4, 4, 9; id. Agr. 2, 30 fin.: “novae adsignationes,” id. ib. 3, 3; so id. Fam. 13, 8, 2: “popularis adsignationis modum non excessit,” Val. Max. 4, 3, 7.—Of other things (cf. assigno, I. B.): “aquae,” Dig. 43, 20, 1.
assignātĭo (ads- ), ōnis, f. assigno,