despumatio

Latin

Etymology

dēspūmō (“to skim off”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːs.puːˈmaː.ti.oː/, [d̪eːs̠puːˈmäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /des.puˈmat.t͡si.o/, [d̪espuˈmät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

dēspūmātiō f (genitive dēspūmātiōnis); third declension

1. skimming off, despumation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēspūmātiō	dēspūmātiōnēs
genitive	dēspūmātiōnis	dēspūmātiōnum
dative	dēspūmātiōnī	dēspūmātiōnibus
accusative	dēspūmātiōnem	dēspūmātiōnēs
ablative	dēspūmātiōne	dēspūmātiōnibus
vocative	dēspūmātiō	dēspūmātiōnēs

References

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