conformatio

Latin

Etymology

From conformō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.foːrˈmaː.ti.oː/, [kõːfoːrˈmäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.forˈmat.t͡si.o/, [koɱforˈmät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnfōrmātiō f (genitive cōnfōrmātiōnis); third declension

1. conformation, shape, form
2. figure of speech

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnfōrmātiō	cōnfōrmātiōnēs
Genitive	cōnfōrmātiōnis	cōnfōrmātiōnum
Dative	cōnfōrmātiōnī	cōnfōrmātiōnibus
Accusative	cōnfōrmātiōnem	cōnfōrmātiōnēs
Ablative	cōnfōrmātiōne	cōnfōrmātiōnibus
Vocative	cōnfōrmātiō	cōnfōrmātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: conformació
• French: conformation
• Galician: conformación
• Italian: conformazione
• Portuguese: conformação
• Romanian: conformație
• Russian: конформа́ция (konformácija)
• Spanish: conformación

References

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