caiatio

Latin

Etymology

From cāiāre, cāiō (“to beat with a whip”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaː.iˈaː.ti.oː/, [käːiˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.iˈat.t͡si.o/, [käiˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cāiātiō f (genitive cāiātiōnis); third declension

1. cudgelling or beating of children

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cāiātiō	cāiātiōnēs
genitive	cāiātiōnis	cāiātiōnum
dative	cāiātiōnī	cāiātiōnibus
accusative	cāiātiōnem	cāiātiōnēs
ablative	cāiātiōne	cāiātiōnibus
vocative	cāiātiō	cāiātiōnēs

References

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