refutatio
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛ.fuːˈtaː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [re.fuˈt̪at̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
- Hyphenation: re‧fū‧tā‧ti‧ō
Noun
refūtātiō f (genitive refūtātiōnis); third declension
- (rhetoric) refutation (an act of refuting)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | refūtātiō | refūtātiōnēs |
| genitive | refūtātiōnis | refūtātiōnum |
| dative | refūtātiōnī | refūtātiōnibus |
| accusative | refūtātiōnem | refūtātiōnēs |
| ablative | refūtātiōne | refūtātiōnibus |
| vocative | refūtātiō | refūtātiōnēs |
Further reading
- “refutatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- refutatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.