exornatio

Latin

Etymology

exōrnō +‎ -tiō

Noun

exōrnātiō f (genitive exōrnātiōnis); third declension

1. decoration, embellishment (especially to speech)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exōrnātiō	exōrnātiōnēs
genitive	exōrnātiōnis	exōrnātiōnum
dative	exōrnātiōnī	exōrnātiōnibus
accusative	exōrnātiōnem	exōrnātiōnēs
ablative	exōrnātiōne	exōrnātiōnibus
vocative	exōrnātiō	exōrnātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: exornation

References

• “exornatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exornatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exornatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.