desinentia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.siˈnen.ti.a/, [d̪eːs̠ɪˈnɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.siˈnen.t͡si.a/, [d̪es̬iˈnɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin dēsinens

Latin -ia

Latin desinentia

dēsinens (“desisting”, oblique stem: dēsinent-) +‎ -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns)

Noun

dēsinentia f (genitive dēsinentiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) ending, cessation, termination

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēsinentia	dēsinentiae
genitive	dēsinentiae	dēsinentiārum
dative	dēsinentiae	dēsinentiīs
accusative	dēsinentiam	dēsinentiās
ablative	dēsinentiā	dēsinentiīs
vocative	dēsinentia	dēsinentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: desinència
• French: désinence f
  • → English: desinence
  • → Romanian: desinență f
• Italian: desinenza
• Portuguese: desinência
• Romanian: desinență
• Sicilian: disinenza
• Spanish: desinencia

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “desinentia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 325/2

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of dēsinēns.

Participle

dēsinentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural neuter of dēsinēns