fomentatio
Latin
Etymology
From fōmentō (“apply a poultice”) + -tiō (action noun suffix).
Noun
fōmentātiō f (genitive fōmentātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin, medicine) fomentation, treatment with a (hot) poultice
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fōmentātiō | fōmentātiōnēs |
| genitive | fōmentātiōnis | fōmentātiōnum |
| dative | fōmentātiōnī | fōmentātiōnibus |
| accusative | fōmentātiōnem | fōmentātiōnēs |
| ablative | fōmentātiōne | fōmentātiōnibus |
| vocative | fōmentātiō | fōmentātiōnēs |
Descendants
- → Italian: fomentazione
- → Old French: fomentation
- French: fomentation
- → Occitan: fomentacion
- → Romanian: fomentație
- →? Middle English: fomentacioun
- English: fomentation
- French: fomentation
- → Portuguese: fomentação
- → Spanish: fomentación
References
- “fomentatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fomentatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “fōmentatio”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 151
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “fomentatio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fomentatio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 695