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Latin
Etymology
From distendō + -tiō.
Noun
distentiō f (genitive distentiōnis); third declension
- spasm
- distortion, distension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “distentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- distentio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.