inscriptio

Latin

Etymology

inscrībō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnscrīptiō f (genitive īnscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. inscription, title

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs
Genitive	īnscrīptiōnis	īnscrīptiōnum
Dative	īnscrīptiōnī	īnscrīptiōnibus
Accusative	īnscrīptiōnem	īnscrīptiōnēs
Ablative	īnscrīptiōne	īnscrīptiōnibus
Vocative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: inscripció
• English: inscription
• French: inscription
• Italian: inscrizione
• Polish: inskrypcja
• Portuguese: inscrição
• Romanian: inscripție
• Spanish: inscripción

References

• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inscriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri