pulsatio

Latin

Etymology

pulsō +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pulˈsaː.ti.oː/, [pʊɫ̪ˈs̠äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pulˈsat.t͡si.o/, [pulˈsät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

pulsātiō f (genitive pulsātiōnis); third declension

1. beating, striking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pulsātiō	pulsātiōnēs
Genitive	pulsātiōnis	pulsātiōnum
Dative	pulsātiōnī	pulsātiōnibus
Accusative	pulsātiōnem	pulsātiōnēs
Ablative	pulsātiōne	pulsātiōnibus
Vocative	pulsātiō	pulsātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: pulsació
• French: pulsation
• Galician: pulsación
• Italian: pulsazione
• Occitan: pulsacion
• Portuguese: pulsação
• Russian: пульсация (pulʹsacija)
• Spanish: pulsación

References

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