osculatio

Latin

Etymology

ōsculor (“kiss”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

Noun

ōsculātiō f (genitive ōsculātiōnis); third declension

  1. a kissing; kiss
  2. (medicine) the inosculation of blood vessels

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ōsculātiō ōsculātiōnēs
Genitive ōsculātiōnis ōsculātiōnum
Dative ōsculātiōnī ōsculātiōnibus
Accusative ōsculātiōnem ōsculātiōnēs
Ablative ōsculātiōne ōsculātiōnibus
Vocative ōsculātiō ōsculātiōnēs

Descendants
  • English: osculation
  • Italian: osculazione
  • Portuguese: osculação
  • Spanish: osculación

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