mitigatio

mitigatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin mītigātus
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin mītigātiō

    From mītigātus (“softened, pacified”) + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mītigātiō f (genitive mītigātiōnis); third declension

    1. softening, soothing
    2. mitigating, mitigation

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mītigātiō mītigātiōnēs
    genitive mītigātiōnis mītigātiōnum
    dative mītigātiōnī mītigātiōnibus
    accusative mītigātiōnem mītigātiōnēs
    ablative mītigātiōne mītigātiōnibus
    vocative mītigātiō mītigātiōnēs

    Descendants

    References

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