infectio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Latin īnficiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin īnfectiō

From īnficiō + -tiō.

Noun

īnfectiō f (genitive īnfectiōnis); third declension

1. infection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnfectiō	īnfectiōnēs
genitive	īnfectiōnis	īnfectiōnum
dative	īnfectiōnī	īnfectiōnibus
accusative	īnfectiōnem	īnfectiōnēs
ablative	īnfectiōne	īnfectiōnibus
vocative	īnfectiō	īnfectiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: infecció
• English: infection
• French: infection
• Galician: infección
• Italian: infezione
• Occitan: infeccion
• → Portuguese: infecção, infeção (chiefly Portugal)
• Romanian: infecțiune, infecție
• Spanish: infección

References

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