crematio

Latin

Etymology

From cremō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

cremātiō f (genitive cremātiōnis); third declension

1. burning
2. cremation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cremātiō	cremātiōnēs
Genitive	cremātiōnis	cremātiōnum
Dative	cremātiōnī	cremātiōnibus
Accusative	cremātiōnem	cremātiōnēs
Ablative	cremātiōne	cremātiōnibus
Vocative	cremātiō	cremātiōnēs

Related terms

• cremō

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: cremason
• Ibero-Romance: (infl. by Greek; see *caimāre)
  • Portuguese: queimação
  • Spanish: quemazón
• Borrowed:
  • → English: cremation
  • → French: crémation
  • → Italian: cremazione
  • → Portuguese: cremação
  • → Romanian: cremațiune
  • → Russian: крема́ция (kremácija)
  • → Spanish: cremación

References

• “crematio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crematio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.