accretio

Latin

Etymology

From accresco +‎ -tio; cf. accretus.

Noun

accrētiō f (genitive accrētiōnis); third declension

1. increment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	accrētiō	accrētiōnēs
Genitive	accrētiōnis	accrētiōnum
Dative	accrētiōnī	accrētiōnibus
Accusative	accrētiōnem	accrētiōnēs
Ablative	accrētiōne	accrētiōnibus
Vocative	accrētiō	accrētiōnēs

Related terms

• accrēscō

Descendants

• Catalan: acreció
• English: accretion
• French: accrétion
• Italian: accrezione
• Portuguese: acreção
• Romanian: acreție
• Russian: аккре́ция f (akkrécija)
• Spanish: acreción

References

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