refutatio

refutatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin refūtō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin refūtātiō

    From refūtō + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    refūtātiō f (genitive refūtātiōnis); third declension

    2. (rhetoric) refutation (an act of refuting)

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative refūtātiō refūtātiōnēs
    genitive refūtātiōnis refūtātiōnum
    dative refūtātiōnī refūtātiōnibus
    accusative refūtātiōnem refūtātiōnēs
    ablative refūtātiōne refūtātiōnibus
    vocative refūtātiō refūtātiōnēs

    Further reading

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