afflictio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adflictiō

Etymology

From afflīgō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

afflīctiō f (genitive afflīctiōnis); third declension

1. pain, suffering, torment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	afflīctiō	afflīctiōnēs
Genitive	afflīctiōnis	afflīctiōnum
Dative	afflīctiōnī	afflīctiōnibus
Accusative	afflīctiōnem	afflīctiōnēs
Ablative	afflīctiōne	afflīctiōnibus
Vocative	afflīctiō	afflīctiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: affliction
• → Catalan: aflicció
• → French: affliction
• → Italian: afflizione
• → Portuguese: aflição
• → Spanish: aflicción

References

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