contusio

See also: contusió

Latin

Etymology

From contundō (“bruise, beat, subdue”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

contūsiō f (genitive contūsiōnis); third declension

1. bruise, contusion
2. crushing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contūsiō	contūsiōnēs
genitive	contūsiōnis	contūsiōnum
dative	contūsiōnī	contūsiōnibus
accusative	contūsiōnem	contūsiōnēs
ablative	contūsiōne	contūsiōnibus
vocative	contūsiō	contūsiōnēs

Descendants

• French: contusion
  • → English: contusion
• → German: Kontusion
• Italian: contusione
• Portuguese: contusão
• Romanian: contuziune, contuzie
• Russian: конту́зия (kontúzija)
• Spanish: contusión
• Serbo-Croatian: kòntūzija

References

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