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Latin
Etymology
From exsecror + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
exsecrātiō f (genitive exsecrātiōnis); third declension
- execration, malediction, curse, hex
- oath
- abomination (cursed thing)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “exsecratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exsecratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exsecratio 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)
- exsecratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.