extenuatio
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]extenuāt- (the perfect passive participial stem of extenuō) + -iō
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ek.ste.nuˈaː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠t̪ɛnuˈäːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.ste.nuˈat.t͡si.o/, [ekst̪enuˈät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]extenuātiō f (genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension
- (literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction
- (figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις (eláttōsis)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | extenuātiō | extenuātiōnēs |
| genitive | extenuātiōnis | extenuātiōnum |
| dative | extenuātiōnī | extenuātiōnibus |
| accusative | extenuātiōnem | extenuātiōnēs |
| ablative | extenuātiōne | extenuātiōnibus |
| vocative | extenuātiō | extenuātiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: extenuation
- → French: exténuation
- → Portuguese: extenuação
References
[edit]- “extĕnŭātĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extenuatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extĕnŭātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 641/1.