fornicatio

Latin

Etymology

From fornicor (“I fornicate”) +‎ -tiō. Translates πορνεία (porneía).

Noun

fornicātiō f (genitive fornicātiōnis); third declension (Ecclesiastical Latin)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs
Genitive	fornicātiōnis	fornicātiōnum
Dative	fornicātiōnī	fornicātiōnibus
Accusative	fornicātiōnem	fornicātiōnēs
Ablative	fornicātiōne	fornicātiōnibus
Vocative	fornicātiō	fornicātiōnēs

Descendants

→ Catalan: fornicació
→ French: fornication
→ Galician: fornicación
→ Italian: fornicazione
→ Occitan: fornicacion
→ Portuguese: fornicação
→ Spanish: fornicación

References

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

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