commotio

commotio

Latin

Etymology

commoveō (“move violently, disturb”) +‎ -tiō

Noun

commōtiō f (genitive commōtiōnis); third declension

1. motion, movement
2. agitation, commotion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	commōtiō	commōtiōnēs
Genitive	commōtiōnis	commōtiōnum
Dative	commōtiōnī	commōtiōnibus
Accusative	commōtiōnem	commōtiōnēs
Ablative	commōtiōne	commōtiōnibus
Vocative	commōtiō	commōtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: commoció
• Middle French: commocion
  • → English: commotion
  • French: commotion
• Italian: commozione
• Portuguese: comoção
• Spanish: conmoción

References

• “commotio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commotio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commotio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the emotions, feelings: animi motus, commotio, permotio