obstructio

Latin

Etymology

From obstruō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

obstrūctiō f (genitive obstrūctiōnis); third declension

1. the act of closing up by building; a blocking up.
2. (figuratively) An obstruction, barrier, hindrance.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	obstrūctiō	obstrūctiōnēs
genitive	obstrūctiōnis	obstrūctiōnum
dative	obstrūctiōnī	obstrūctiōnibus
accusative	obstrūctiōnem	obstrūctiōnēs
ablative	obstrūctiōne	obstrūctiōnibus
vocative	obstrūctiō	obstrūctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: obstrucció
• Dutch: obstructie
• English: obstruction
• French: obstruction
• Friulian: ostruzion
• Galician: obstrución
• German: Obstruktion
• Italian: ostruzione
• Lombard: ostruzzion
• Portuguese: obstrução
• Romanian: obstrucție
• Russian: обструкция (obstrukcija)
• Spanish: obstrucción

References

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