contractio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?

Latin trahō

Latin contrahō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin contractiō

From contrahō (“draw together, shorten”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtrak.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtrak.t͡si.o]

Noun

contractiō f (genitive contractiōnis); third declension

1. a contraction, drawing together
2. abridgment, shortening
3. dejection, despondency

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contractiō	contractiōnēs
genitive	contractiōnis	contractiōnum
dative	contractiōnī	contractiōnibus
accusative	contractiōnem	contractiōnēs
ablative	contractiōne	contractiōnibus
vocative	contractiō	contractiōnēs

Related terms

• contrāctus
• contrāctūra
• contrahō

Descendants

• Catalan: contracció
• English: contraction
• French: contraction
• Galician: contracción
• Italian: contrazione
• Portuguese: contração
• Romanian: contracție
• Russian: контра́кция (kontrákcija)
• Spanish: contracción

References

• “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "contractio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “contractio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.