declinatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēclīnō +‎ -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis).

Noun

dēclīnātiō f (genitive dēclīnātiōnis); third declension

  1. declination
  2. inclination
  3. avoidance
  4. variation, inflection
  5. (grammar) declension
  6. (grammar, archaic) every change of a word; declension, conjugation, comparation, derivation etc.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēclīnātiō dēclīnātiōnēs
Genitive dēclīnātiōnis dēclīnātiōnum
Dative dēclīnātiōnī dēclīnātiōnibus
Accusative dēclīnātiōnem dēclīnātiōnēs
Ablative dēclīnātiōne dēclīnātiōnibus
Vocative dēclīnātiō dēclīnātiōnēs

Descendants

References
  • “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • declinatio 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)
  • declinatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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