palpitatio

From palpitō (“throb, pulsate, palpitate”) +‎ -tiō, frequentative of palpō (“touch softly, stroke, pat”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pal.piˈtaː.ti.oː/, [päɫ̪pɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal.piˈtat.t͡si.o/, [pälpiˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

palpitātiō f (genitive palpitātiōnis); third declension

1. A frequent and rapid motion, trembling, throbbing, pulsating, palpitation, quivering, twitching.

Third-declension noun.

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