abominatio

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin abōminātiō. Doublet of abomination.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˌbɑ.mɪnˈeɪ.ʃi.oʊ/

Noun

abominatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Bdelygmia.
2. (rhetoric) Apodioxis.

Latin

Etymology

From abōminō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.boː.miˈnaː.ti.oː/, [äboːmɪˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.bo.miˈnat.t͡si.o/, [äbomiˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

abōminātiō f (genitive abōminātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) aversion, detestation, loathing, abomination

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abōminātiō	abōminātiōnēs
Genitive	abōminātiōnis	abōminātiōnum
Dative	abōminātiōnī	abōminātiōnibus
Accusative	abōminātiōnem	abōminātiōnēs
Ablative	abōminātiōne	abōminātiōnibus
Vocative	abōminātiō	abōminātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: abominació
• → Dutch: abominatie
• → Middle French: abomination
  • → Middle English: abominacioun
    • English: abomination
  • French: abomination
    • → Romanian: abominațiune
• → Galician: abominación
• → Italian: abominazione
• → Polish: abominacja
• → Portuguese: abominação
• → Spanish: abominación

References

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