attenuatio

Latin

Etymology

From attenuāre, attenuō + -tiō.

Noun

attenuātiō f (genitive attenuātiōnis); third declension

The act of diminishing or lessening; attenuation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	attenuātiō	attenuātiōnēs
Genitive	attenuātiōnis	attenuātiōnum
Dative	attenuātiōnī	attenuātiōnibus
Accusative	attenuātiōnem	attenuātiōnēs
Ablative	attenuātiōne	attenuātiōnibus
Vocative	attenuātiō	attenuātiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: atenuació
→ French: atténuation
Galician: atenuación
Italian: attenuazione
→ Portuguese: atenuação
Spanish: atenuación

References

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

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