Latin
Etymology
From dēclīnō + -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis).
Noun
dēclīnātiō f (genitive dēclīnātiōnis); third declension
- declination
- inclination
- avoidance
- variation, inflection
- (grammar) declension
- (grammar, archaic) every change of a word; declension, conjugation, comparation, derivation etc.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| genitive | dēclīnātiōnis | dēclīnātiōnum |
| dative | dēclīnātiōnī | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| accusative | dēclīnātiōnem | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| ablative | dēclīnātiōne | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| vocative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: declinació
- → Old French: declinacion
- Middle French: declination
- French: déclination
- →? Middle English: declinacioun, declenacioun, declinacion, declynacion, declynacioun
- English: declination
- Middle Scots: declinatioun
- Middle French: declination
- → Old French: declinaison (calque)
- Middle French: declinaison
- French: déclinaison
- Norman: dêclyinnaîson
- →? Middle English: declinson, declynson, clensone, clenzon, declenson (East Anglia), declunson (Staffordshire), clensoune (West Riding)
- English: declension
- → Scots: declension
- English: declension
- Middle French: declinaison
- → German: Deklination
- → Italian: declinazione
- → Portuguese: declinação
- → Romanian: declinație
- → Russian: деклина́ция (deklinácija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: deklinácija
- → Spanish: declinación
References
- “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “declinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "declinatio", 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)
- “declinatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.