contractio
Latin
Etymology
From contrahō (“draw together, shorten”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔnˈtrak.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kon̪ˈt̪rak.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
contractiō f (genitive contractiōnis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | contractiō | contractiōnēs |
| genitive | contractiōnis | contractiōnum |
| dative | contractiōnī | contractiōnibus |
| accusative | contractiōnem | contractiōnēs |
| ablative | contractiōne | contractiōnibus |
| vocative | contractiō | contractiōnēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: contracció
- English: contraction
- French: contraction
- Galician: contracción
- Italian: contrazione
- Portuguese: contração
- Romanian: contracție
- Russian: контра́кция (kontrákcija)
- Spanish: contracción
References
- “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "contractio", 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)
- contractio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.