enarratio

Latin

Etymology

From ēnārrō (“I expound”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.naːrˈraː.ti.oː/, [eːnäːrˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.narˈrat.t͡si.o/, [enärˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ēnārrātiō f (genitive ēnārrātiōnis); third declension

1. a detailed exposition or interpretation
2. (by extension) a teacher's explanation or interpretation of a text, which he would deliver to his or her students in a class
3. (especially, in metre) the reckoning, scanning
4. conversation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēnārrātiō	ēnārrātiōnēs
genitive	ēnārrātiōnis	ēnārrātiōnum
dative	ēnārrātiōnī	ēnārrātiōnibus
accusative	ēnārrātiōnem	ēnārrātiōnēs
ablative	ēnārrātiōne	ēnārrātiōnibus
vocative	ēnārrātiō	ēnārrātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: enarration
• Italian: enarrazione
• Portuguese: enarração
• Spanish: enarración

References

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