enarratio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ēnārrō (“I expound”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eː.naːrˈraː.ti.oː/, [eːnäːrˈräːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.narˈrat.t͡si.o/, [enärˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun[edit]
ēnārrātiō f (genitive ēnārrātiōnis); third declension
- a detailed exposition or interpretation
- (by extension) a teacher's explanation or interpretation of a text, which he would deliver to his or her students in a class
- (especially, in metre) the reckoning, scanning
- conversation
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ēnārrātiō | ēnārrātiōnēs |
| Genitive | ēnārrātiōnis | ēnārrātiōnum |
| Dative | ēnārrātiōnī | ēnārrātiōnibus |
| Accusative | ēnārrātiōnem | ēnārrātiōnēs |
| Ablative | ēnārrātiōne | ēnārrātiōnibus |
| Vocative | ēnārrātiō | ēnārrātiōnēs |
Descendants[edit]
- English: enarration
- Italian: enarrazione
- Portuguese: enarração
- Spanish: enarración
References[edit]
- “ēnarrātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- enarratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.