defaecatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin dēfaecāre

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dēfaecātiō

From dēfaecāre + -tiō.

Noun

dēfaecātiō f (genitive dēfaecātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) cleansing, purifying
2. (Late Latin) defecation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēfaecātiō	dēfaecātiōnēs
genitive	dēfaecātiōnis	dēfaecātiōnum
dative	dēfaecātiōnī	dēfaecātiōnibus
accusative	dēfaecātiōnem	dēfaecātiōnēs
ablative	dēfaecātiōne	dēfaecātiōnibus
vocative	dēfaecātiō	dēfaecātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: defecació
• → English: defecation
• → French: défécation
  • → Romanian: defecație
• → German: Defäkation
• → Italian: defecazione
• → Polish: defekacja
• → Portuguese: defecação
• → Russian: дефека́ция (defekácija)
• → Spanish: defecación

References

• “defaecatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "defaecatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “defaecatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.