minctio

Latin

Etymology

Derived from the root of mingō (“I urinate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːnk.ti.oː/, [ˈmiːŋkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmink.t͡si.o/, [ˈmiŋkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

mīnctiō f (genitive mīnctiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) urination

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mīnctiō	mīnctiōnēs
genitive	mīnctiōnis	mīnctiōnum
dative	mīnctiōnī	mīnctiōnibus
accusative	mīnctiōnem	mīnctiōnēs
ablative	mīnctiōne	mīnctiōnibus
vocative	mīnctiō	mīnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: minzione

References

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