examinatio

Latin

Etymology

From exāminō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

exāminātiō f (genitive exāminātiōnis); third declension

1. equipoise, equilibrium
2. weighing, examination

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exāminātiō	exāminātiōnēs
genitive	exāminātiōnis	exāminātiōnum
dative	exāminātiōnī	exāminātiōnibus
accusative	exāminātiōnem	exāminātiōnēs
ablative	exāminātiōne	exāminātiōnibus
vocative	exāminātiō	exāminātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Interlingua: examination
• Interlingua: essame
• Interlingua: essamatura

• → Italian: esaminazione
• Italian: sciame
• Italian: sciamatura

• → Spanish: examinación
• Spanish: enjambre
• Spanish: enjambrazón

• → French: examination
• French: essaimage
  • → Old French: examinacion

• → English: examination
• → English: exam

References

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