percussio

See also: percussió

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.

Proto-Italic *peri-

Latin per-

Latin quatiō

Latin percutiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin percussiō

From percutiō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛrˈkʊs.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [perˈkus.si.o]

Noun

percussiō f (genitive percussiōnis); third declension

1. beating, striking; percussion (act of beating etc)
2. (music) beat

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	percussiō	percussiōnēs
genitive	percussiōnis	percussiōnum
dative	percussiōnī	percussiōnibus
accusative	percussiōnem	percussiōnēs
ablative	percussiōne	percussiōnibus
vocative	percussiō	percussiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: percussió
• French: percussion
• Galician: percusión
• Italian: percussione
• Portuguese: percussão
• → Russian: перкуссия (perkussija)
• Spanish: percusión

References

• “percussio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “percussio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "percussio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “percussio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.