inclinatio

Latin

Etymology

From inclīnō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

inclīnātiō f (genitive inclīnātiōnis); third declension

1. act of leaning
2. tendency, inclination

   Synonyms: dēsīderium, studium, libīdō, appetītiō, prōpēnsiō

3. mathematics slope, inclination

   Synonym: clima

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inclīnātiō	inclīnātiōnēs
Genitive	inclīnātiōnis	inclīnātiōnum
Dative	inclīnātiōnī	inclīnātiōnibus
Accusative	inclīnātiōnem	inclīnātiōnēs
Ablative	inclīnātiōne	inclīnātiōnibus
Vocative	inclīnātiō	inclīnātiōnēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: ncljinãciuni
• English: inclination
• French: inclinaison, inclination
• Italian: inclinazione
• Middle French: enclinaison
• Portuguese: inclinação
• Romanian: închinăciune, înclinație
• Spanish: inclinación

References

• “inclinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inclinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inclinatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• inclinatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
    
• “inclinatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers