putrefactio

Latin

Etymology

putrefaciō +‎ -tiō

Noun

putrefactiō f (genitive putrefactiōnis); third declension

1. rotting, putrefaction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	putrefactiō	putrefactiōnēs
Genitive	putrefactiōnis	putrefactiōnum
Dative	putrefactiōnī	putrefactiōnibus
Accusative	putrefactiōnem	putrefactiōnēs
Ablative	putrefactiōne	putrefactiōnibus
Vocative	putrefactiō	putrefactiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: putrefacció
• → French: putréfaction
• Galician: putrefacción
• Italian: putrefazione
• Portuguese: putrefação
• Spanish: putrefacción

References

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