inundatio
Latin
Etymology
From inundō (“overflow, inundate”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪ.nʊnˈdaː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.nun̪ˈd̪at̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
inundātiō f (genitive inundātiōnis); third declension
- inundation, an overflowing, flood
- (by extension) a crowd of people
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | inundātiō | inundātiōnēs |
| genitive | inundātiōnis | inundātiōnum |
| dative | inundātiōnī | inundātiōnibus |
| accusative | inundātiōnem | inundātiōnēs |
| ablative | inundātiōne | inundātiōnibus |
| vocative | inundātiō | inundātiōnēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- 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
- “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.