defaecatio
Latin
Etymology
From dēfaecāre + -tiō.
Noun
dēfaecātiō f (genitive dēfaecātiōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) cleansing, purifying
- (Late Latin) defecation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēfaecātiō | dēfaecātiōnēs |
| Genitive | dēfaecātiōnis | dēfaecātiōnum |
| Dative | dēfaecātiōnī | dēfaecātiōnibus |
| Accusative | dēfaecātiōnem | dēfaecātiōnēs |
| Ablative | dēfaecātiōne | dēfaecātiōnibus |
| Vocative | dēfaecātiō | dēfaecātiōnēs |
Descendants
- → English: defecation
- → French: défécation
- Italian: defecazione
- Portuguese: defecação
- Romanian: defecație
- → Russian: дефека́ция (defekácija)
- Spanish: defecación
References
- “defaecatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- defaecatio 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)
- defaecatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette