praecipitatio

Latin

Etymology

praecipitō +‎ -tiō

Noun

praecipitātiō f (genitive praecipitātiōnis); third declension

1. headlong fall
2. inconsiderate haste
3. precipitation (all senses)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	praecipitātiō	praecipitātiōnēs
genitive	praecipitātiōnis	praecipitātiōnum
dative	praecipitātiōnī	praecipitātiōnibus
accusative	praecipitātiōnem	praecipitātiōnēs
ablative	praecipitātiōne	praecipitātiōnibus
vocative	praecipitātiō	praecipitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: precipitació
• French: précipitation
• Galician: precipitación
• Italian: precipitazione
• Portuguese: precipitação
• Romanian: precipitație, precipitațiune
• Spanish: precipitación

References

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