exaratio

Latin

Etymology

exarō (“I plough up”, “I write on wax tablets”, perfect passive participial stem: exarāt-) +‎ -iō (suffix forming nouns of action)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈraː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠äˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈrat.t͡si.o/, [eɡzäˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

exarātiō f (genitive exarātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a ploughing up
2. (transferred sense) a written composition, a writing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exarātiō	exarātiōnēs
genitive	exarātiōnis	exarātiōnum
dative	exarātiōnī	exarātiōnibus
accusative	exarātiōnem	exarātiōnēs
ablative	exarātiōne	exarātiōnibus
vocative	exarātiō	exarātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: exaration

References

• “exărātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exaratio 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)
• exărātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 615/1.