extenuatio

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Latin

Etymology

extenuāt- (the perfect passive participial stem of extenuō) +‎ -iō

Pronunciation

Noun

extenuātiō f (genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension

  1. (literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction
  2. (figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις (eláttōsis)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative extenuātiō extenuātiōnēs
genitive extenuātiōnis extenuātiōnum
dative extenuātiōnī extenuātiōnibus
accusative extenuātiōnem extenuātiōnēs
ablative extenuātiōne extenuātiōnibus
vocative extenuātiō extenuātiōnēs

Descendants

  • → English: extenuation
  • → French: exténuation
  • → Portuguese: extenuação

References

  • “extĕnŭātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “extenuatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • extĕnŭātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 641/1.
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