noun · femininethird declension
dēclīnātiō
dēclīnātiō f (genitive dēclīnātiōnis)
Meaning
- declination
- inclination
- avoidance
- variation, inflection
- declension
- archaicevery change of a word; declension, conjugation, comparation, derivation etc.
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| genitive | dēclīnātiōnis | dēclīnātiōnum |
| dative | dēclīnātiōnī | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| accusative | dēclīnātiōnem | dēclīnātiōnēs |
| ablative | dēclīnātiōne | dēclīnātiōnibus |
| vocative | dēclīnātiō | dēclīnātiōnēs |
dēclīnātĭo, ōnis, f. id.,
I. a bending from a thing, a bending aside; an oblique inclination or direction (good prose).
I. Lit.:
lanceam exigua corporis declinatione vitare, Curt. 9, 7 fin.; cf.: quot ego tuas petitiones parva quadam declinatione effugi, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15: declinare dixit (Epicurus) atomum perpaulum, et ipsa declinatio ad libidinem fingitur, etc., id. Fin. 1, 6, 19; so of the oblique motion of atoms, id. Fat. 10, 22; 22, 47.—B. Like the Gr. κλίμα, the supposed slope of the earth towards the poles, a region of the earth or sky, a climate:
declinatio mundi, Col. 1 prooem. § 22; so, mundi, id. 3, 1, 3; cf.: positio caeli et declinatio, id. 1, 6, 18; so correspond. with regio caeli, Col. 4, 24, 2; cf. also caeli, the altitude of the pole, Vitr. 9, 7, 1.—II. Trop.
A. In gen., a turning away from any thing; an avoiding, avoidance: ut bona natura appetimus, sic a malis natura declinamus;
quae declinatio, si cum ratione fiet, cautio appelletur, Cic. Tusc. 4, 6, 13; cf. so opp. appetitio, id. N. D. 3, 13, 33; and in plur. Gell. 14, 1, 23: laboris, periculi, Cic. Clu. 53 fin.—B. t. t.
1. Of rhetor. lang., a short digression:
declinatio brevis a proposito, non ut superior illa digressio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53 fin.; id. Part. 15; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 32 and 34.—2. Of gramm. lang.: variation, inflection.
(a). In the older grammarians, every change of form which a word undergoes; as declension, strictly so called, conjugation, comparison, derivation, etc., Varr. L. L. 8, § 2 sq.; 10, § 11 sq.; Cic. de Or. 3, 54; cf.
also of declension in its stricter sense, Quint. 1, 4, 29; 1, 5, 63; of conjugation, id. 1, 4, 13; of derivation, id. 8, 3, 32; 2, 15, 4.—(b). Among the later grammarians, of declension, properly so called, as distinguished from conjugatio, comparatio, derivatio, etc. So, Donatus: in declinatione compositivorum nominum, p. 174 P. (p. 13 Lind.).
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dēclīnātiō ōnis, f
declino, a bending aside, turning away, averting : tuas petitiones parvā declinatione effugi: atomi: corporis, Cu.—Fig., a turning away, avoiding, avoidance : a malis naturā declinamus; quae declinatio, etc.: laboris. — In rhet., a slight deviation (from the direct argument): a proposito: ad amplificandum.— A rejection, qualification (of a word or phrase).
Origins
From dēclīnō + -tiō. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἔγκλισις (énklisis).
Descendants
- Catalandeclinació
- Frenchdéclinationfrom Old French declinacion
- Englishdeclinationfrom Old French declinacion
- Frenchdéclinaisonfrom Old French declinaison
- Englishdeclensionfrom Old French declinaison
- GermanDeklination
- Italiandeclinazione
- Portuguesedeclinação
- Romaniandeclinație
- Spanishdeclinación