infectio

Latin

Etymology

From īnficiō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnfectiō f (genitive īnfectiōnis); third declension

1. infection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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
• 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.