attritio

Latin

Etymology

From atterō (“I rub against”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

attrītiō f (genitive attrītiōnis); third declension

1. The act of rubbing upon or against; attrition.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	attrītiō	attrītiōnēs
genitive	attrītiōnis	attrītiōnum
dative	attrītiōnī	attrītiōnibus
accusative	attrītiōnem	attrītiōnēs
ablative	attrītiōne	attrītiōnibus
vocative	attrītiō	attrītiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: atrició
• → English: attrition
• → French: attrition
• Galician: atrición
• Italian: attrizione
• Portuguese: atrição
• Spanish: atrición

References

• “attritio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• attritio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.