inundatio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From inundō (“overflow, inundate”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /i.nunˈdaː.ti.oː/, [ɪnʊn̪ˈd̪äːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i.nunˈdat.t͡si.o/, [inun̪ˈd̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun[edit]
inundātiō f (genitive inundātiōnis); third declension
- inundation, an overflowing, flood
- (by extension) a crowd of people
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | inundātiō | inundātiōnēs |
| Genitive | inundātiōnis | inundātiōnum |
| Dative | inundātiōnī | inundātiōnibus |
| Accusative | inundātiōnem | inundātiōnēs |
| Ablative | inundātiōne | inundātiōnibus |
| Vocative | inundātiō | inundātiōnēs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Asturian: inundación
- Catalan: inundació
- English: inundation
- French: inondation
- Friulian: inondazion
- Galician: inundación
- Italian: inondazione
- Occitan: inondacion
- Piedmontese: inondassion
- Portuguese: inundação
- Romanian: inundație
- Spanish: inundación
References[edit]
- “inundatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inundatio 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)
- inundatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.