abbreviatio

Latin

Etymology

From abbreviō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.u̯iˈaː.ti.oː/, [äbːreu̯iˈäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.bre.viˈat.t͡si.o/, [äbːreviˈät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

abbreviātiō f (genitive abbreviātiōnis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) abridgment, abbreviation, shortening

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abbreviātiō	abbreviātiōnēs
genitive	abbreviātiōnis	abbreviātiōnum
dative	abbreviātiōnī	abbreviātiōnibus
accusative	abbreviātiōnem	abbreviātiōnēs
ablative	abbreviātiōne	abbreviātiōnibus
vocative	abbreviātiō	abbreviātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: abreviació
• Middle French: abreviation
  • → Middle English: abbreviacioun
    • English: abbreviation
  • French: abréviation
• → Galician: abreviación
• → German: Abbreviation
• Italian: abbreviazione
• → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviasjon
• → Portuguese: abreviação
• Romanian: abreviație
• Spanish: abreviación

References

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