conflatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōnflō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈfɫaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱˈflat.t͡si.o]

Noun

cōnflātiō f (genitive cōnflātiōnis); third declension

1. fanning (stirring up)
2. casting (metal)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnflātiō	cōnflātiōnēs
genitive	cōnflātiōnis	cōnflātiōnum
dative	cōnflātiōnī	cōnflātiōnibus
accusative	cōnflātiōnem	cōnflātiōnēs
ablative	cōnflātiōne	cōnflātiōnibus
vocative	cōnflātiō	cōnflātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: conflation (learned)

References

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