fornicatio

Latin

Etymology

From fornicor (“I fornicate”) +‎ -tiō. Translates πορνεία (porneía).

Noun

fornicātiō f (genitive fornicātiōnis); third declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

1. fornication
2. whoredom, prostitution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs
genitive	fornicātiōnis	fornicātiōnum
dative	fornicātiōnī	fornicātiōnibus
accusative	fornicātiōnem	fornicātiōnēs
ablative	fornicātiōne	fornicātiōnibus
vocative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fornicació
• → French: fornication
• → Galician: fornicación
• → Italian: fornicazione
• → Occitan: fornicacion
• → Portuguese: fornicação
• → Spanish: fornicación

References

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