declinatio
Latin
Etymology
From dēclīnō + -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis).
Noun
dēclīnātiō f (genitive dēclīnātiōnis); third declension
- declination
- inclination
- avoidance
- variation, inflection
- (grammar) declension
- (grammar, archaic) every change of a word; declension, conjugation, comparation, derivation etc.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| Genitive | dēclīnātiōnis | dēclīnātiōnum |
| Dative | dēclīnātiōnī | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| Accusative | dēclīnātiōnem | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| Ablative | dēclīnātiōne | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| Vocative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: declinació
- English: declination, declension
- French: déclinaison
- German: Deklination
- Italian: declinazione
- Norman: dêclyinnaîson
- Portuguese: declinação
- Russian: деклина́ция (deklinácija)
- Spanish: declinación
References
- “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- declinatio 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)
- declinatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.