extenuatio

Latin

Etymology

extenuāt- (the perfect passive participial stem of extenuō) +‎ -iō

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.ste.nuˈaː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠t̪ɛnuˈäːt̪ioː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.ste.nuˈat.t͡si.o/, [ekst̪enuˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

extenuātiō f (genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension

(literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction
(figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις (eláttōsis)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	extenuātiō	extenuātiōnēs
Genitive	extenuātiōnis	extenuātiōnum
Dative	extenuātiōnī	extenuātiōnibus
Accusative	extenuātiōnem	extenuātiōnēs
Ablative	extenuātiōne	extenuātiōnibus
Vocative	extenuātiō	extenuātiōnēs

Descendants

→ English: extenuation
→ French: exténuation
→ Portuguese: extenuação

References

“extĕnŭātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“extenuatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
extĕnŭātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 641/1.

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