percolatio

Latin

Etymology

percōlō (“I strain or filter through”, “I percolate”, perfect passive participial stem: percōlāt-) +‎ -iō (“-tion”, suffix forming nouns of action)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /per.koːˈlaː.ti.oː/, [pɛrkoːˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /per.koˈlat.t͡si.o/, [perkoˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

percōlātiō f (genitive percōlātiōnis); third declension

1. a straining or filtering through, percolation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	percōlātiō	percōlātiōnēs
genitive	percōlātiōnis	percōlātiōnum
dative	percōlātiōnī	percōlātiōnibus
accusative	percōlātiōnem	percōlātiōnēs
ablative	percōlātiōne	percōlātiōnibus
vocative	percōlātiō	percōlātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: percolació
• → English: percolation
• → Finnish: perkolaatio
• → French: percolation
• → German: Perkolation
• → Italian: percolazione
• → Portuguese: percolação
• → Romanian: percolație
• → Spanish: percolación

References

• “percolatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• percolatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• percolatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016