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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.
Descendants
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’s 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.