coartatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• coarctātiō

Etymology

From coartō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”) +‎ -tiō (“-ation”, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ko.arˈtaː.ti.oː/, [koärˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.arˈtat.t͡si.o/, [koärˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

coartātiō f (genitive coartātiōnis); third declension

1. (rare) drawing or crowding together

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coartātiō	coartātiōnēs
genitive	coartātiōnis	coartātiōnum
dative	coartātiōnī	coartātiōnibus
accusative	coartātiōnem	coartātiōnēs
ablative	coartātiōne	coartātiōnibus
vocative	coartātiō	coartātiōnēs

References

• “coartatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press