fomentatio

From fōmentō (“apply a poultice”) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix).

fōmentātiō f (genitive fōmentātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin, medicine) fomentation, treatment with a (hot) poultice

Third-declension noun.

• → Italian: fomentazione
• → Old French: fomentation
  • French: fomentation
    • → Occitan: fomentacion
    • → Romanian: fomentație
  • →? Middle English: fomentacioun
    • English: fomentation
• → Portuguese: fomentação
• → Spanish: fomentación

• “fomentatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fomentatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949) “fōmentatio”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 151
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “fomentatio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fomentatio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 695