enarratio
Latin
Etymology
From ēnārrō (“I expound”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.naːrˈraː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.narˈrat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
ēnārrātiō f (genitive ēnārrātiōnis); third declension
- a detailed exposition or interpretation
- (by extension) a teacher's explanation or interpretation of a text, which he would deliver to his or her students in a class
- (especially, in metre) the reckoning, scanning
- conversation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ēnārrātiō | ēnārrātiōnēs |
| genitive | ēnārrātiōnis | ēnārrātiōnum |
| dative | ēnārrātiōnī | ēnārrātiōnibus |
| accusative | ēnārrātiōnem | ēnārrātiōnēs |
| ablative | ēnārrātiōne | ēnārrātiōnibus |
| vocative | ēnārrātiō | ēnārrātiōnēs |
Descendants
- English: enarration
- Italian: enarrazione
- Portuguese: enarração
- Spanish: enarración
References
- “ēnarrātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- enarratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.