accretio

Latin

Etymology

From accresco +‎ -tio; cf. accretus.

Noun

accrētiō f (genitive accrētiōnis); third declension

1. increment

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	accrētiō	accrētiōnēs
genitive	accrētiōnis	accrētiōnum
dative	accrētiōnī	accrētiōnibus
accusative	accrētiōnem	accrētiōnēs
ablative	accrētiōne	accrētiōnibus
vocative	accrētiō	accrētiōnēs

Related terms

• accrēscō

Descendants

• → Catalan: acreció
• → English: accretion
• → French: accrétion
• → Italian: accrezione
• → Portuguese: acreção
• → Romanian: acreție
• → Russian: аккре́ция f (akkrécija)
• → Spanish: acreción

References

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