inscriptio

Latin

Etymology

From inscrībō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnscrīptiō f (genitive īnscrīptiōnis); third declension

1. inscription, title

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs
genitive	īnscrīptiōnis	īnscrīptiōnum
dative	īnscrīptiōnī	īnscrīptiōnibus
accusative	īnscrīptiōnem	īnscrīptiōnēs
ablative	īnscrīptiōne	īnscrīptiōnibus
vocative	īnscrīptiō	īnscrīptiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: inscripció
• Corsican: inscrizzione, iscrizzione, scrizzione
• English: inscription
• French: inscription
• Friulian: iscrizion
• Galician: inscrición
• Italian: iscrizione
• Occitan: inscripcion
• Polish: inskrypcja
• Portuguese: inscrição
• Romanian: inscripție
• Spanish: inscripción

References

• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inscriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “inscriptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri