narratio

Latin

Etymology

From nārrō (“narrate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naːrˈraː.ti.oː/, [näːrˈräːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /narˈrat.t͡si.o/, [närˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

nārrātiō f (genitive nārrātiōnis); third declension

1. narration, narrative, story

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nārrātiō	nārrātiōnēs
genitive	nārrātiōnis	nārrātiōnum
dative	nārrātiōnī	nārrātiōnibus
accusative	nārrātiōnem	nārrātiōnēs
ablative	nārrātiōne	nārrātiōnibus
vocative	nārrātiō	nārrātiōnēs

Derived terms

• nārrātiuncula

Descendants

• Catalan: narració
• French: narration
• Galician: narración
• Italian: narrazione
• Portuguese: narração
• Romanian: narațiune, narație
• Sicilian: narrazziuni
• Spanish: narración

References

• “narratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “narratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• narratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a narrative, tale, story: narratio, fabula