infectio

Latin

Etymology

From īnficiō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnfectiō f (genitive īnfectiōnis); third declension

1. infection

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnfectiō	īnfectiōnēs
genitive	īnfectiōnis	īnfectiōnum
dative	īnfectiōnī	īnfectiōnibus
accusative	īnfectiōnem	īnfectiōnēs
ablative	īnfectiōne	īnfectiōnibus
vocative	īnfectiō	īnfectiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: infecció
• English: infection
• French: infection
• Galician: infección
• Italian: infezione
• Occitan: infeccion
• → Portuguese: infecção, infeção (Portugal)
• Romanian: infecțiune, infecție
• Spanish: infección

References

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