comminatio

Latin

Etymology

From comminor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.mɪˈnaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.miˈnat.t͡si.o]

Noun

comminātiō f (genitive comminātiōnis); third declension

1. threat, menace

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	comminātiō	comminātiōnēs
genitive	comminātiōnis	comminātiōnum
dative	comminātiōnī	comminātiōnibus
accusative	comminātiōnem	comminātiōnēs
ablative	comminātiōne	comminātiōnibus
vocative	comminātiō	comminātiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: comminazione
• Spanish: conminación

References

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