oscillatio

Latin

Etymology

From ōscillō (“to swing”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːs.kilˈlaː.ti.oː/, [oːs̠kɪlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oʃ.ʃilˈlat.t͡si.o/, [oʃːilˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ōscillātiō f (genitive ōscillātiōnis); third declension

1. swinging, swing
2. oscillation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōscillātiō	ōscillātiōnēs
genitive	ōscillātiōnis	ōscillātiōnum
dative	ōscillātiōnī	ōscillātiōnibus
accusative	ōscillātiōnem	ōscillātiōnēs
ablative	ōscillātiōne	ōscillātiōnibus
vocative	ōscillātiō	ōscillātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: oscil·lació
• French: oscillation
• Galician: oscilación
• Italian: oscillazione
• Occitan: oscillacion
• Portuguese: oscilação
• Romanian: oscilație
• Russian: осцилляция (oscilljacija)
• Spanish: oscilación

References

• “oscillatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oscillatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “oscillatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers