quassatura

Latin

Etymology

From quassātum +‎ -tūra, from the supine of quassō (“shake repeatedly or violently”), from quatiō (“shake”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷas.saːˈtuː.ra/, [kʷäs̠ːäːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwas.saˈtu.ra/, [kwäsːäˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

quassātūra f (genitive quassātūrae); first declension

1. The act of shaking.
2. An injury from shaking.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quassātūra	quassātūrae
genitive	quassātūrae	quassātūrārum
dative	quassātūrae	quassātūrīs
accusative	quassātūram	quassātūrās
ablative	quassātūrā	quassātūrīs
vocative	quassātūra	quassātūrae

Related terms

• quassō
• quatiō

References

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