constipatio

Latin

Etymology

constīpō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.stiːˈpaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.stiˈpat.t͡si.o]

Noun

cōnstīpātiō f (genitive cōnstīpātiōnis); third declension

1. throng, crowd
2. (Medieval Latin) constipation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnstīpātiō	cōnstīpātiōnēs
genitive	cōnstīpātiōnis	cōnstīpātiōnum
dative	cōnstīpātiōnī	cōnstīpātiōnibus
accusative	cōnstīpātiōnem	cōnstīpātiōnēs
ablative	cōnstīpātiōne	cōnstīpātiōnibus
vocative	cōnstīpātiō	cōnstīpātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: constipation (learned)

References

• “constipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “constipatio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC