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Latin
Etymology
ōsculor (“kiss”) + -tiō
Pronunciation
Noun
ōsculātiō f (genitive ōsculātiōnis); third declension
- a kissing; kiss
- (medicine) the inosculation of blood vessels
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “osculatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “osculatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- osculatio 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)
- osculatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.