extenuatio

Latin

Etymology

extenuāt- (the perfect passive participial stem of extenuō) +‎ -iō

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.ste.nuˈaː.ti.oː/, [ɛk.stɛ.nʊˈaː.ti.oː]

Noun

extenuātiō f (genitive extenuātiōnis); third declension

(literally) a thinning or diminishing, rarefaction
(figuratively, in rhetoric) a lessening, diminution, extenuation; as a rhetorical figure, translating the Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis) or ἐλάττωσις (eláttōsis)

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	extenuātiō	extenuātiōnēs
Genitive	extenuātiōnis	extenuātiōnum
Dative	extenuātiōnī	extenuātiōnibus
Accusative	extenuātiōnem	extenuātiōnēs
Ablative	extenuātiōne	extenuātiōnibus
Vocative	extenuātiō	extenuātiōnēs

Descendants

English: extenuation
French: exténuation

References

extĕnŭātĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
extenuatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
extĕnŭātĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 641/1

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