cretio

Latin

Etymology

From cernō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkreː.ti.oː/, [ˈkreːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkret.t͡si.o/, [ˈkrɛt̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

crētiō f (genitive crētiōnis); third declension

1. inheritance, heritage

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	crētiō	crētiōnēs
genitive	crētiōnis	crētiōnum
dative	crētiōnī	crētiōnibus
accusative	crētiōnem	crētiōnēs
ablative	crētiōne	crētiōnibus
vocative	crētiō	crētiōnēs

Descendants

• English cretion

References

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