ablatio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ablātiō (“carrying away”). Doublet of ablation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/, /æbˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/

Noun

ablatio (uncountable)

1. (surgery) Synonym of ablation.

   Hyponyms: ablatio placentae, ablatio retinae

References

• Clayton L. Thomas, editor (1940), Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 5th edition, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, published 1993, →ISBN, page 6

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix).

See also lātus, the perfect passive participle of ferō (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈlaː.ti.oː/, [äbˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈlat.t͡si.o/, [äbˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ablātiō f (genitive ablātiōnis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. taking away, removal

   Synonyms: demptiō, remōtiō

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ablātiō	ablātiōnēs
Genitive	ablātiōnis	ablātiōnum
Dative	ablātiōnī	ablātiōnibus
Accusative	ablātiōnem	ablātiōnēs
Ablative	ablātiōne	ablātiōnibus
Vocative	ablātiō	ablātiōnēs

Derived terms

• ablātīvus (adjective)

Related terms

• ablātor

Descendants

• → Catalan: ablació
• → Dutch: ablatie
• → French: ablation
• → Malay: ablasi
• → Middle English: ablacioun
  • → English: ablation, ablatio
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ablasjon
• → Portuguese: ablação
• → Romanian: ablațiune, ablație
• → Russian: абля́ция (abljácija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: абла́ција/ablácija
• → Spanish: ablación

References

• “ablatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press