exaggeratio

Latin

Etymology

From exaggerō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.saɡ.ɡeˈraː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠äɡːɛˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.sad.d͡ʒeˈrat.t͡si.o/, [eɡzädː͡ʒeˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

exaggerātiō f (genitive exaggerātiōnis); third declension

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Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exaggerātiō	exaggerātiōnēs
genitive	exaggerātiōnis	exaggerātiōnum
dative	exaggerātiōnī	exaggerātiōnibus
accusative	exaggerātiōnem	exaggerātiōnēs
ablative	exaggerātiōne	exaggerātiōnibus
vocative	exaggerātiō	exaggerātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: exageració
• French: exagération
• Galician: esaxeración
• Italian: esagerazione
• Occitan: exageracion
• Piedmontese: esagerassion
• Portuguese: exageração
• Romanian: exagerație, exagerațiune
• Spanish: exageración

References

• “exaggeratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exaggeratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exaggeratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.