fornicatio

Latin

Etymology

From fornicor (“I fornicate”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

fornicātiō f (genitive fornicātiōnis); third declension

1. fornication
2. whoredom, prostitution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs
Genitive	fornicātiōnis	fornicātiōnum
Dative	fornicātiōnī	fornicātiōnibus
Accusative	fornicātiōnem	fornicātiōnēs
Ablative	fornicātiōne	fornicātiōnibus
Vocative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: fornicació
• French: fornication
• Galician: fornicación
• Italian: fornicazione
• Portuguese: fornicação
• Spanish: fornicación

References

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