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Latin
Etymology
ascendō + -tiō.
Noun
ascēnsiō f (genitive ascēnsiōnis); third declension
- ascent, ascension
- Synonyms: ēscēnsiō, inscensio, cōnscēnsiō, cōnscēnsus, ascēnsus, escēnsus
- Antonyms: dēscēnsus, dēcursiō, dēscēnsiō, dēcursus
- progress, advancement
- flight of stairs
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Ascension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ascensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ascensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ascensio 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)
- ascensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.