flexio

From flectō (“to bend, curve”) + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫɛk.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɛk.si.o]

flexiō f (genitive flexiōnis); third declension

1. a bending, swaying, turning, winding
2. a bend, curve
3. (of the voice) modulation, inflection

Third-declension noun.

• (bending, turning): flexūra

• reflexiō
• inflexiō

• “flexio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flexio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "flexio", 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)
• “flexio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.