complicatio

Latin

Etymology

From complicō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

complicātiō f (genitive complicātiōnis); third declension

1. folding up
2. multiplication, complication

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	complicātiō	complicātiōnēs
Genitive	complicātiōnis	complicātiōnum
Dative	complicātiōnī	complicātiōnibus
Accusative	complicātiōnem	complicātiōnēs
Ablative	complicātiōne	complicātiōnibus
Vocative	complicātiō	complicātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: complicació
• English: complication
• French: complication
• Italian: complicazione

• Polish: komplikacja
• Portuguese: complicação
• Romanian: complicație
• Spanish: complicación

References

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