distentio

Latin

Etymology

From distendō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

distentiō f (genitive distentiōnis); third declension

1. spasm
2. distortion, distension

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	distentiō	distentiōnēs
genitive	distentiōnis	distentiōnum
dative	distentiōnī	distentiōnibus
accusative	distentiōnem	distentiōnēs
ablative	distentiōne	distentiōnibus
vocative	distentiō	distentiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: distensió
• → French: distension
• → English: distension
• → Italian: distensione
• → Spanish: distención

References

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