attenuatio

Latin

Etymology

From attenuāre, attenuō + -tiō.

Noun

attenuātiō f (genitive attenuātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of diminishing or lessening; attenuation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	attenuātiō	attenuātiōnēs
Genitive	attenuātiōnis	attenuātiōnum
Dative	attenuātiōnī	attenuātiōnibus
Accusative	attenuātiōnem	attenuātiōnēs
Ablative	attenuātiōne	attenuātiōnibus
Vocative	attenuātiō	attenuātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: atenuació
• → French: atténuation
• Galician: atenuación
• Italian: attenuazione
• Portuguese: atenuação
• Spanish: atenuación

References

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