explanatio

Latin

Etymology

From explano (“I explain”) +‎ -tio (“suffix forming action noun”).

Pronunciation

Noun

explānātiō f (genitive explānātiōnis); third declension

  1. explanation, interpretation
  2. exposition
  3. articulation, pronunciation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative explānātiō explānātiōnēs
Genitive explānātiōnis explānātiōnum
Dative explānātiōnī explānātiōnibus
Accusative explānātiōnem explānātiōnēs
Ablative explānātiōne explānātiōnibus
Vocative explānātiō explānātiōnēs

Descendants
  • → English: explanation
  • → Portuguese: explanação
  • → Spanish: explanación

References
  • “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “explanatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • explanatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • explanatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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