frictio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰriH-o-s

Proto-Italic *frios

Proto-Italic *friāō

Latin friō

Latin fricō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin frictiō

From fricō (“rub”) + -tiō.

Noun

frictiō f (genitive frictiōnis); third declension

1. friction
2. massage

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	frictiō	frictiōnēs
genitive	frictiōnis	frictiōnum
dative	frictiōnī	frictiōnibus
accusative	frictiōnem	frictiōnēs
ablative	frictiōne	frictiōnibus
vocative	frictiō	frictiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fricció
• → English: friction
• → French: friction
• → Galician: fricción
• → German: Friktion
• → Italian: frizione
• → Maltese: frizzjoni
• → Norwegian: friksjon
• → Occitan: friccion
• → Portuguese: fricção
• → Romanian: fricțiune
• → Russian: фрикция (frikcija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фрикција, frikcija
• → Sicilian: frizziuni
• → Spanish: fricción
• → Swedish: friktion

References

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