defaecatio

Latin

Etymology

From dēfaecāre +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dēfaecātiō f (genitive dēfaecātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) cleansing, purifying
2. (Late Latin) defecation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēfaecātiō	dēfaecātiōnēs
Genitive	dēfaecātiōnis	dēfaecātiōnum
Dative	dēfaecātiōnī	dēfaecātiōnibus
Accusative	dēfaecātiōnem	dēfaecātiōnēs
Ablative	dēfaecātiōne	dēfaecātiōnibus
Vocative	dēfaecātiō	dēfaecātiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: defecation
• → French: défécation
• Italian: defecazione
• Polish: defekacja
• Portuguese: defecação
• Romanian: defecație
• → Russian: дефека́ция (defekácija)
• Spanish: defecación

References

• “defaecatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• defaecatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• defaecatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.