delusio

Latin

Etymology

From dēlūdō (“to deceive or dupe”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈɫuː.si.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈluː.s̬i.o]

Noun

dēlūsiō f (genitive dēlūsiōnis); third declension

a deceiving, deluding, a delusion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēlūsiō	dēlūsiōnēs
genitive	dēlūsiōnis	dēlūsiōnum
dative	dēlūsiōnī	dēlūsiōnibus
accusative	dēlūsiōnem	dēlūsiōnēs
ablative	dēlūsiōne	dēlūsiōnibus
vocative	dēlūsiō	dēlūsiōnēs

Derived terms

dēlūsiōnālis

Descendants

→ Catalan: delusió
→ French: délusion
→ Friulian: delusion
→ Italian: delusione
→ Piedmontese: delusion
→ Portuguese: delusão
→ Spanish: delusión

References

“delusio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
delusio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.