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Latin
Etymology
From dētestō + -tiō, from the verb detestari.
Pronunciation
Noun
dētestātiō f (genitive dētestātiōnis); third declension
- execration (solemn curse)
- detestation
- renunciation (formal)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “detestatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detestatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- detestatio 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)
- detestatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.