recreatio

Latin

Etymology

From recreō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /re.kreˈaː.ti.oː/, [rɛkreˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.kreˈat.t͡si.o/, [rekreˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

recreātiō f (genitive recreātiōnis); third declension

1. restoration, recovery

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	recreātiō	recreātiōnēs
Genitive	recreātiōnis	recreātiōnum
Dative	recreātiōnī	recreātiōnibus
Accusative	recreātiōnem	recreātiōnēs
Ablative	recreātiōne	recreātiōnibus
Vocative	recreātiō	recreātiōnēs

Related terms

• rēcreābilis
• recreātor
• recreō

Descendants

• Catalan: recreació
• Czech: legrace
• English: recreation
• French: récréation
• Galician: recreación
• Italian: ricreazione
• Portuguese: recreação
• Russian: рекреация (rekreacija)
• Spanish: recreación

References

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