dimicatio

Latin

Etymology

From dīmicō (“fight, struggle, contend”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diː.mɪˈkaː.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.miˈkat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

dīmicātiō f (genitive dīmicātiōnis); third declension

a fight, battle, combat, encounter
Synonyms: certāmen, proelium, pugna, bellum
a contest, struggling, strife
Synonyms: rixa, certatus, duellum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dīmicātiō	dīmicātiōnēs
genitive	dīmicātiōnis	dīmicātiōnum
dative	dīmicātiōnī	dīmicātiōnibus
accusative	dīmicātiōnem	dīmicātiōnēs
ablative	dīmicātiōne	dīmicātiōnibus
vocative	dīmicātiō	dīmicātiōnēs

References

“dimicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“dimicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
dimicatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.